Author Archives: Jacob Allred

How to go from a pricing error to lost customers

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 11, 2011

JCPenney.com recently had an amazing deal on Melissa & Doug block sets. These sets are regularly around $50, but with this deal you could get 2 sets for around $24. I immediately placed an order. One set for my baby, and one set as a gift. Sadly, my order arrived yesterday with just one set in it. [...]

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Replacing the hinges on my Lenovo IdeaPad Y530

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 10, 2011

There I was, minding my own business, doing something uber productive (like stumbling or something), when suddenly the screen on my laptop went *smack!* against my legs. In other words, the screen decided it was tired of being told where to be and it was going to just flop around wherever gravity would take it. [...]

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Phone charger caddy thing

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 2, 2011

A few months ago my wife and I got a bad case of insomnia, so we decided to create a cell phone charger caddy thing. Basically it is a little phone holder that sits on your phone charger plug, so you don’t have to set your phone on the floor. We used a piece of [...]

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2011 Goal Update (October)

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 1, 2011

This is my tenth monthly report on how I’m doing with my goals for 2011: Read the Book of Mormon again. I’ve abandoned this goal because I’ve started taking a Book of Mormon class. Earn as much from my side business as I was earning from my day job. October was another awesome month. Earnings [...]

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Boo-ing Your Neighbors

By Jacob Allred | Published: November 1, 2011
Boo-ed

For Family Home Evening on 10/3 my family decided to “boo” a few friends. I don’t know how popular this is where you live, but where I grew up in Folsom, CA, this is the thing to do in October. Pretty much everyone I knew would get boo-ed by Halloween. The premise is pretty simple: put [...]

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