Aaron Saray

open source programmer,
web developer

entrepreneur, author
and musician

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Category Archives: business

Site profile: thebetterbachelor.com

Goal: to create a bachelor cookbook and sell it to other bachelors online. The price of the cookbook was to be very cheap so that it wasn’t too much of a risk. The book itself was supposed to be picture … Continue reading

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Filtering and Validating Discussion

I came up with a great topic to write this blog entry about: filters and validators. Then, I got to thinking – maybe I can get more feedback from other programmers I know. I decided to send a note out … Continue reading

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Service profile: mketweeps

Goal: I came up with an idea that I wanted to find local people in our area and mention them using a twitter bot. Pretty simple. Two requirements were they either had to use the word milwaukee in their profile … Continue reading

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Site profile: jemdiary.com

JEMDiary Goal: In 2001, having an online diary was only being piloted by a few people. Blogging was big, but considering it a ‘diary’ was not that popular. Only a few competitors existed: myopendiary and teendiary. I started my own … Continue reading

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Site Profile: amazondiscount.me

The goal was to use links that Amazon provided themselves to showcase categories and percentage discounts with my affiliate tag. The thought was a clean interface would easily encourage people to click a discount of say 90% but send affiliate … Continue reading

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Site Profile: name-tag.me

Note: I have shut down name-tag.me. These notes were taken before I pulled the plug. The goal was to make a “hello my name is” style name tag without the use of images but with a handwritten font. Trouble I … Continue reading

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Read Something Else

Many years ago, a business mentor of mine told me that I should “read something else.” I didn’t know what he meant so I asked for more. He said I should go find some biographies, some history books, etc, and … Continue reading

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Don’t Always Lead: Sometimes Just Be Great

What is the measurement of a good career? Promotion? Raises? Running a project / leading a team? Usually all of this. However, the most traditional measurement of success in a career is moving upward. Time to run a department, time … Continue reading

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Shape the Sales of The Better Bachelor 10 Dish Cook Book

Hey everyone – I’m looking to push the sales of the 10 Dish Better Bachelor Cook book to the next level. Check out the sales single page here: http://thebetterbachelor.com/10dish/ What can I do to change up this page copy / … Continue reading

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Solving the Problem, Not the Solution

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been told how to do your job… Yep. It’s happened more than once – and I’m sure you already had a flash of red and maybe some warmth come to your face even hearing … Continue reading

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