The Thrifty Nickel is Back in Town!

May 3rd, 2012

The title seems to say, “I am super excited about the Thrifty Nickel being back”, I must say that isn’t 100% true but it is a great improvement over the “American Classifieds”

Let’s face it, I am way more excited about Ebay, Amazon, Auto Trader, Facebook marketplace, before I am the Thrifty Nickel but this paper is convenient.

When I am sitting somewhere waiting for my car to get fixed, etc. so long as I find quality in the paper I will pick up again. If I pick it up this time only to find a bunch of schemes and local car dealer ads then there will be another multiple year long drought before I spend my time turning pages in that thing again.

In a previous blog post I really went after American Classifieds because they seemed to destroy the old Thrifty Nickel beyond recognition.

I am not sure how many people even knew but the Thrifty Nickel hasn’t been around for several years because it became American Classifieds.

When this happened it seemed a bunch of mail stuffing national work from home ads began appearing all throughout the publication and other stupid non personal local ads.

Lots of car dealer ads were in the American Classifieds paper and it seemed to almost completely lose any local Tyler TX connection unless you were in the market to look at car dealer ads.

I was used to finding really good deals from local people in The Thrifty Nickel but the American Classifieds was so overrun with national ads and business ads I failed to find the local people ads with cool junk for sale.

Local people seemed to ditch publicizing in the American Classifieds maybe because it was too expensive for ad space or something else, I really don’t know.

I hope now that the Thrifty Nickel is back that more cool local junk ads will appear like perhaps an old Nintendo console for sale, some retro Rayban glasses, and a $60 push lawn mower.

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Google + Project the new Facebook perhaps? Invite

June 28th, 2011

Google + Project demo

Google + project is Google’s version of Facebook.

I am asking for Google + invites so if you want an invite from me just let me know.

Now of course in large part this will be a personal social network but there will also be a version for local businesses.

That means that beyond your business Twitter, Facebook, and Yellowpage accounts you will likely need a Google Plus account as well for your local Tyler business.

We will see if this Google Plus project takes flight over the next month.

You can drag and drop friends into little circles. These are your circle of friends.

So Paul Slachter goes in the “Mad Friends” circle making it go to +11 after you drop him in.

You could also have a circle for just those friends who wear liberal librarian looking glasses.

The thing I take away from this is that +1 makes it much more visually intuitive to add friends. You also can look at a feed of just your close buds and not be so distracted by your 1,000 friends from your entire graduating class. I like seeing what random people are doing sometimes but I see the value in just looking at a feed containing your inner 50 circle.

Google’s slogan is something like “don’t be evil” and Facebook is starting to be seen as the evil one.

This could be a pretty good timing move by Google but even so people realize Google is not so much the underdog.

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Residence Inn by Marriott – Tyler

January 24th, 2010

Residence Inn by Marriott is located at 3303 Troup Highway, Tyler, Texas. This location is within easy distance of several good eating places and there is a Bank of America across the street if you are in need of cash during your stay. The hotel is in town but when you go in your room for the night, it is amazing just how quite it is inside.

A few years ago, our family had an occasion to use this Tyler hotel. There were two couples to stay in the suite. It had an upstairs with a queen bed and bathroom …then the bottom floor had a fold down bed, bathroom, living room and a fully stocked kitchen with dishes, silverware, glasses and cooking utensils. We were able to keep the costs down…by cooking ordinary meals and still getting to vacation. The price, when compared to other hotels in Tyler, was agreeable with our pocketbook.

The rooms were very clean and nice sized to add others to the eating experience. We had 5 other people join us for a meal and everyone was comfortable while we ate and visited.

If you are looking to stay in a hotel, and there is a need to have a place to keep food and fix inexpensive meals for your party…consider the Residence Inn by Marriott. I know you will be pleased with your experience.

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