http://www.gregpilling.com/blog Blogging, because all the cool kids are doing it Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:32:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You’ve seen the video for Dick-in-a-Box featuring Justin Timberlake, now you can give a Dick-in-the-Box as a gift. WoodyinaBox.com is now offering a variety of phallic gifts packaged in a box, ranging from a keychain to a bottle opener. Woodyinabox.com is a subsidiary of Flat Earth Trading, a company specializing ... http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/44/step-one-cut-a-hole-in-the-box-step-two-put-your-junk-in-the-box-step-three-get-her-to-open-the-box/ What fun! I buy a liquidation of many thousands of parts and get and education in trademark law for a small extra fee. When buying the remains of the entity formerly known as Smittybilt, how was I to know all the fun adventures that would happen? Now we are required to ... http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/43/smittybilt/ My friend Greg is getting his new Tiki site off the ground. Go to Go tiki to see it. He is importing thousands of Tiki products with each container he gets in and the stuff is incredible. http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/42/new-tiki-site/ My friend Dave and I have purchased a huge amount of Smittybilt tube steps for trucks, as well as grille guards, nerf bars, tail light guards, bumpers and more. All the Smittybilt stuff that a person could ever want. Go to Smittybilt.net to see it all. There are around 11,000 ... http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/41/a-new-business-venture-smittybilt-liquidation/ I came across this site that lists all the sites that you can bookmark your favorite sites on. Make sense? 3spots.blogspot.com is what it is called. Maybe one day I can invento something that will rate being there… probably not. http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/40/social-bookmarking-sites/ I am getting kind of crazy, trying to find ERP software that meets our needs. We are using Quickbooks for orders and accounting, SugarCRM for customer management, and UPS Worldship for shipping. None of them talk to each other, and this is a big headache. I have looked at Netsuite, MySAP, ... http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/39/finding-erp-software/ I was reading the latest issue of Business 2.0 the other night, and a VC wants to put a Blackberry on the steering wheel of your car with a heads-up display. Not a bad idea, I thought, since people are using the things while driving anyway, laws be damned. The part ... http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/38/what-is-wrong-with-venture-capitalists/ I moved back home. Not in the sense that I am living with my mom - in the sense that I moved my work location to home. My office is a gigantic two miles away, but it is filled with very competent people, so there is no need for ... http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/37/working-from-home/ Since I have started several businesses now, I recognize great advice when I read it. Go to Entrepeneurial Proverbs and read it for yourselves. Another good companion to this article is Guy Kawasaki’s book, the Art of the Start. http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/36/great-advice-for-entrepeneurs/ I have found that keeping track of customers is pretty useful if you want to provide them with good service. There are many choices, but I have been using SugarCRM. Another useful site is this one because they actually have all the patches, upgrades and different versions available for downloading. http://www.gregpilling.com/blog/35/sugarcrm/