Max Beatty

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Archive for May, 2009

Thanks PizzaX

On Fri­day, I finally got back to Bloom­ing­ton to pick up a stack of cups with my Lit­tle 500 logo from Piz­zaX (for­merly Pizza Express) that they had set aside just for me and wanted to thank them pub­licly for their small effort that meant a lot to me.

New Business Cards For My Old Man

This morn­ing my dad and I sat around play­ing with some new ideas for his busi­ness cards and over­all brand. You can see his old logo on his site. The redesign and rebrand­ing stems from want­ing to be clearer about what he does as a busi­ness while at the same time sim­pli­fy­ing his office setup. […]

Using Twitter Favorites

Twit­ter is renowned for allow­ing its users to cre­ate and define some of its fea­tures (i.e. @replies, #hash­tags, retweets). The Favorites fea­ture is one of the older ones on Twit­ter, but it doesn’t get a lot of pub­lic­ity. To see your favorites go to http://twitter.com/favorites and to see other users’ favorites go to http://twitter.com/username/favorites. You’ll […]

What do you do with old computers?

My grand­fa­ther had a great busi­ness insight a num­ber of  years ago– peo­ple love hav­ing stuff even if there’s no room to put it. He built some self stor­age units on some extra land and has been suc­cess­fully rent­ing them ever since. One of my per­sonal goals over the past year has been to simply […]

Private Sale at RalphLauren.com May 14th — May 18th

I prob­a­bly could have fit all of this into a tweet if I wanted to but I thought I’d explain it all in a short post. Ralph Lau­ren is hold­ing a Pri­vate Sale for the next few days where you can save up to 40% off. If you spend $175, you get free ship­ping otherwise […]