Over the past decade, the two most powerful marketing platforms in the history of advertising have been created: Search Engine Keyword Marketing and Social Network Advertising. With each, you can track your return on your ad spend down to the penny, meaning no more wasted ad spend.

August was a busy month for Arkansas patents. The U.S. Patent Office issued 21 patents to Arkansas inventors and entrepreneurs in August. A normal month sees two or three per week come out of Arkansas, which is comparable to other states that share our size and demographics.

Well, these days my eyebrows need trimming, I’m feeling my age, and I just feel like being a grumpy, old man and really teeing off on a product and a business model that have made my life a little less fun this week. So, here goes with mostly full attribution to Andy Rooney.

While Internet retail sounds sexy, it’s not… it’s a lot of hard work. We actually have to stock and ship everything from welding jackets to Landau scrubs to breast pumps and everything in between.