I am not sure where we will go next, but I appreciate the support and will return to some weekly posts. Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate the brothers, family members, and cousins from Onemans kin in Alabama, but I am not sure if you really count as true readers as Alabama has some messed up laws.   I highlighted (bolded) a few of the reasons why I am not allowed to visit the state, with the primary one being my need to “sell” blow-out nuts!

• You must subscribe via RSS to Bloggers that quit and hate blogging.
• Anniston: You may not wear blue jeans down Noble Street.
• An ordinance in Linden, Ala., provided that all women of “uncertain chastity” had to be off the streets by 9 p.m.
• Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.
• Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.
• Children of incestuous couples are deemed legitimate.
• Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
• Hunting is not allowed on Sunday.
• Incestuous marriages are legal.
• It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.
• It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.
• It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.
• It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone’s pity.
• It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
• It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.
• It is legal to drive the wrong way on a one way street if you have a lantern on the front of your car.
• It is unlawful to wear women’s pumps with sharp, high heels.
• It’s against the law for a man to seduce “a chaste woman by means of temptation, deception, arts, flattery or a promise of marriage.”
• It’s illegal to play dominoes on Sunday.
• Jasper: It is illegal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick larger in diameter than his thumb.
• Lee County: It is illegal to sell peanuts in Lee County after sundown on Wednesday.
• Masks may not be worn in public
• Men may not spit in front of the opposite sex.
• Mobile: It is unlawful to howl at ladies inside the city limits. It is unlawful to wear women’s pumps with sharp, high heels.
• Montgomery: It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of it spooking horses.
• No persons may sell “blow-out nuts”.
• Peanuts are not allowed to be sold in Lee County, Alabama after sunset on Wednesdays.
• Pool halls may not be operated between 11:30 PM and 6 AM.
• Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.
• Slavery is still legal in Decatur, Alabama.
• The game of crackaloo is illegal in Fairfield, Ala.
• Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce. However, this provision does not apply to men.
• Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce. However, this provision does not apply to men.
• You cannot chain your alligator to a fire hydrant.
• You may not drive barefooted.
• You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.
• You must have windshield wipers on your car.

I am not very good at breaking up, but I need to ask you to leave now. You see my fellow visitors, I don’t really think you are worthy of the good things I have to say and I am not 100% you really like me, so I am moving into a platform that can garner more than 3 fricking reader.

I did all the right things, I made friends in high places (OneMan), I bought a copy of Word Press for Dummies, I purchased a couple million incoming links, a used some software to generate links on forums, I create a half million doorway pages, and made fun of some cool industry people. To what benefit? A loss of 40 hours of my life, 3 subsribers, 1 fan (www.yetanothermansblog.com), 1 wasted domain registration, and a whole crapload of spam based comments.

To make a long story short I am asking you to go away and never come back.    I am not into this whole “just being friends” dealio, so remove yourself from my blog or feel the wrath of .htaccess.

Have a good life and if we run into each other on some sappy forum; please don’t make eye contact with me or send me a PM.

The Video…

Maybe someday I will post my full list, but for now here is one of my life long goals!

1.) I want to star in a production of Glenn Garry Glenn Ross - and yes I want to be Alec Baldwin..

I like Weezer, don’t get me wrong - I have watched their newest video 4-5 times and they have some awesome marketing tactics.

Good Idea:
Microsoft includes the Buddy Holly video from Weezer to show us that they are hip and cool.

Bad Execution:
Microsoft fails to realize that a video mocking “Happy Days” and the Cunninghams isn’t that cool.

A few introduction’s before we get started with Pork and Beans, because this video is laced with Internet Viral Superstars including the Numa Numa guy, Daft Punk and many more peeps that have been viewed millions of times for doing something funny.

and finally a little Pork and Beans, Weezer style…..

Saturday morning equals a 5 hour drive to the depths of the Show Me State; followed by the inability to get a campsite once we arrived. Luck was on my side (or so I thought) and they had available “suites” which were basically a crappy motel room. We settled as a 5 hour return flight to Iowa wasn’t an option. That is the highlights of the day as the remainder of the weekend went downhill.

7PM (Saturday) - We started fishing with the kids - the kids wanted to play in the park, we ended up fishing by ourselves (without licenses) and the MO MO PO PO (The Show Me State DNR) - said “Show Me” your fishing licenses! Oooops, we racked up $350.00 in fines and that ended fishing for the night.

12AM (Sunday Morning), I am being yelled at by my cousin (also staying in the same luxury suite) that someone is in our room. Yeah that’s right we left our backdoor open and a sleepwalker entered our room and crawled into his bed. They were screaming at here to leave the room, but she was too busy trying to put his shirt on, as pants. I guess they didn’t have enough impact on here, so they decided to bring in a super hero to save the day. (That’s me). I came, I conquered, I closed the deal, and the rather large lady left our room. I proudly thought to myself, it takes a real salesman to convince a sleepwalker to leave.

I wanted to leave you with a two tips when traveling to “The Show Me State”.

1. Lock your doors while camping in “The Show Me State” - their have a high population of sleepwalkers.
2. Pay $7.00 for a fishing license or you will be donation massive amounts of cash to the MO MO PO PO park fund.

The above is not a billboard, but I thought it would make a great one.

At first I was going to call this a subliminal message; but it’s not really that subliminal, is it?

Props goes out to http://www.dribbleglass.com

If you run a pet adoption, pet shelter, or work for a humane shelter, listen up - because this idea will save the lives of pets.

The first concept of marketing a website is called a “Call to Action“. A Call to Action funnels customers to a specific action, such as purchasing a product, signing up for a newsletter, or calling your organization. Many elements can play on the call to action on a website and the idea I have for you will increase this call to action 1000%.

We all know humane shelters house pets and if they are not adopted, the end result can be fatal for the orphaned pet. The million dollar idea I have is “truth” in marketing that provides a website with a countdown to the day they are being “put to sleep”. I know, it sounds wrong, but why not spread the word about the reality if the pet is not placed in a nice home, the results will be death?

See this example!

Now we could get all Web 2.0 on it with RSS feeds, email subscriptions, AJAX Based Countdowns, the ability to sort shortest time left, and many more cool ideas.

If you are the webmaster for a shelter that house pets, the time is now to step up to the plate with this idea and save the lives of the pets you are serving. What I can guarantee you is a higher percentage of adoption.

The only piece of information about myself is the following:

‘Water skier and member of the California Water Bugs club in 1940s.’

I tried to update the profile but they want $30.00 a year to do this. If for any reason, I ever need to be listed #1 on Google, $30.00 seems like a fair price. Or…. If I get annoyed and people start bothering me about my ultra cool water skiing skills of the 40’s - I might just have to belly up the $30.00!

I originally wrote this post last Sunday and while on a business trip in Washington DC I had called a cab service to take me to the airport. While on the phone we negotiated the spelling of my last name for a good 2-3 minutes as I repeated the spelling. I was pretty sure that we had it right at the end of the dialog, but I was wrong. Will the real Aaron Thillits, please stand up. And will the real cab service please train the dispatch team to learn “P” as in Paul is just that.

1. That’s impossible.
2. You know how many people have said that, but haven’t executed it?
3. Your crazy dude!
4. Don’t waste your time, your a loser and always will be.

Now, let me get to the point here.   Another Mans Blog fell into one of the 4 above statement, I won’t tell you which one, but I can tell you I was instantly motivated to do it better, do it harder, and launch “Another Man’s Blog”.

When the hunter becomes the hunted, especially in the marketing world, you have a great idea!   Without further delay, I would like to introduce………

Yet Another Man’s Blog

As a veteran Blogger with almost 20 posts to my name, I am going to share some infinite wisdom here for “Yet Another Man”.

1. Make sure you have your “About Me” page done or the readers will be upset.   For some reason most people like to get to know you.
2. If your gonna hang with “elite” bloggers like “Another Man” and “One Man“, don’t think 2 posts will be enough.  You will be required to give up 2-3 hours a week for postings.
3. Add a Feedburner Subscription Module.
4. Be prepared to buy “yet another beer” next time we are in town.   One Man buys “one beer”, Another Man buys “another beer”, and you my friend get the responsibility of buy infinite amounts of “yet another beer”.
5. Add Woopra to your Blog, for me seeing the 40+ visitors has been exciting!
6. Finally, if you want to be super cool and hang with the big kids, start working on your Texas Accent.  Seriously, the public loves Texans (don’t ask why).

Welcome to the Blog-O-Sphere my humble friend - hopefully we see some action from your BLOG and not some empty shell of a word press theme, hanging in the background.