A Reddit Confession Nearly Solved a 28-year-old Cold Case
It was 6th August, Saturday, the last day for Coverdell elementary school pupils. The day was a bit dark. Clouds have covered the sky. Scott came home from his school, changed his clothes, and went to play outside around 4 pm. St. Charles has had a neighborhood full of kids, approximately 100.
Scott was wearing a black t-shirt that said “Rude Dog,” khaki pants, and red and black high-top sneakers. Scott’s blue eyes and brown hair gave him a remarkable personality as a 9-year-old.
His elder sister saw Scott at approximately 5:00 pm in his hometown of St. Charles, Missouri. He had left his home on Leverenz Drive and was walking down towards West at the time. …
All of us have gone through many stages in life. All of us have many different incidents to talk about. Some Funny. Some Emotional. If we document all of these incidents in a book until we die, well, with a little edit and proof-reading, it can be turned into an exquisite book featuring you. Yourself.
You are a book. You are a book, and you are writing it simultaneously every day by living. You are writing it yourself. Some new chapters are being added every day, some chapters get an end, and well some chapters are left on a hook. …
Ask Your Customers What They Want and Fail
What type of coffee do you like? I am serious.
When this question may be asked to you in public, approximately 75% of you will answer dark, intense, roasted coffee. But in actual existence, only a handful of you are telling the truth. Only 28–30% of you like dark, intense, roasted coffee. The rest 70% may enjoy weak milky coffee. But they may never avow it in public.
Now, if you are in the coffee business, after seeing the data, you may try to focus on making your coffee much darker, more robust as the majority of people want. …
The Luckiest Man Cursed with Bad Luck
Abraham Shakespear was a casual American Labour. He was doing all sorts of day jobs that he could get his hands, making $8 an hour. On November 15, 2006, he was heading towards Miami with his friend Michael Ford. They stopped at the convenience store in Frostproof to buy sodas and cigarettes, where Michael asked Abharam if he wants something… to which Abharam refused. Instead, he told Michael to buy him 2 lottery tickets worth $2. Shakespear reached in his pocket and gave him $2 from the $5 he had.
Soon, after the numbers for the lottery came out, it was like a miracle. Michael had won a 30M$ lottery. He was asked to get 30M$ in break-down monthly installment or $17M lumpsum. …
The Dim Side of this Redditors Left Everyone Speechless
On September 25, 2009, a Reddit user named CarlH started a subreddit(a forum on Reddit) called r/Carlprogramming. In this subreddit, Carl Herold used to provide free programming lessons from basic to advanced levels. His subreddit started getting some attraction.
Soon after his subreddit blew up, he started a blog called computerscienceforeveryone.com, where he regularly blogged about programming and other computer-related projects. He also started his youtube channel, where he created videos about programming. His youtube channel was very helpful for new programmers, and it gained around 34,000 subscribers.
Viewers often thanked Carl on Reddit, that how he changed their lives, and how, for the first time in their life, they were able to understand programming. …
Their gamble to go off-brand paid off
In Seattle, in 2009, Starbucks started showing fewer sales and eventually closed down. It is said that Seattle doesn’t sleep. Coffee stores per capita in Seattle is the highest in comparison to any other city in the USA. So, why did Starbucks fail in Seattle? It’s simple, because local people preferred friendly neighborhood coffee shops rather than big-coffee-chains like Starbucks.
Starbucks took an artistic approach. They went undercover. Starbucks converted its closed cafe in Seattle into a Local Cafe. They removed the Starbucks branding, changed the interior, and gave it a fresh local cafe look. …
You can still use Facebook to build a raving community
If you are on the Internet, there is a very slight chance, you haven’t come across an ad from Russell Brunson. For those who don’t know who the guy in the above picture is, he is Russell Brunson, CEO, and co-founder of Clickfunnels, Newyork Times Bestselling Author, and a legendary marketer.
Russell and his pal Tom started Clickfunnels in 2014. It is a software company that helps people to build sales funnel and websites quickly and easily. Their marketing is inclined towards start-ups and small businesses who want to grow and shift their businesses online.
Clickfunnels grew from $0–$360 million in less than six years without any VC backing or funding. How did they do it? Are they selling their products cheaper than their competitors? They are not cheap either; a Clickfunnels subscription cost $97 a month, which is comparatively higher than their competitors. …
A letter to all the editors I have submitted to, I am sorry.
Dear Editor,
I know I haven’t been good for you lately. I put on the same content every single day that no one wants to read, but I do it because I think it’s unique and I am wrong, I get it. I will tell you everything I always wanted to say but didn’t have the opportunity.
I know it is rough for you too. Looking at a bunch of stories that puke out the same things again and again, with nothing new to say. Thanks for sticking on the ride.
I want to admit my sin. Remember the story I sent in last week; I didn’t proofread it. I just wanted to be free from my job, wanted to watch F.r.i.e.n.d.s, Ross was about to propose Rachel. I knew it was going to be rejected, but I still gave it a shot. I do it all the time! …
We all can agree; this was “THE” most significant blunder in business history.
Have you ever heard of the “Ratner effect”?
Wait! Let me start with an incident that happened in my life.
I got admitted to a new college for my 2nd-year degree. I made some new friends. Things were going well. We had a subject called Communication History. The subject was extremely uninteresting as it was stuffed with theory and nothing practical, and the Professor for the subject was SUPA BORING too.
I made a joke about the Professor, how boring he was. And I got punched with immense bad luck. Professor was the Uncle of one of my new friends.
She told him, and Professor hated me after that. Thank God! He was in college for just one semester. Saying that joke was a bit costly. …
A simple pun turned into a huge PR disaster
It was 2003. Mike Rowe was just an ordinary 17-year old Canadian student.
Like every other student, Rowe wanted to make some extra side cash, so he decided to offer his graphic and design services and make a couple of bucks here and there. The internet was booming. What else would be the best place to showcase his work. He decided to create a small website with all his designs and graphic work.
When he sat down to buy a name for his website, he tried to be a little creative. Mike had a funny, playful, and humorous personality.
He noticed that when his name Mike Rowe was said loudly, it sounded like micro. So to have a bit of fun, he bought mikerowesoft.com in August 2003. His website sounded like Microsoft.com, the software giant. Mike choose this domain name just as for the pun, but he didn’t know where it was heading. …
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