Our condolences to the family and friends of Pocholo Ramirez, who passed away yesterday morning. He is a true Racing Legend in the Philippines, and leaves behind a lasting legacy in the world of motorsports.
RIP Grandmaster Pocholo
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
RIP: Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr.
Tapout founder and MMA Icon Charles Lewis Jr. aka Mask passed away early morning of March 11, 2009. He was involved in a car crash. Our deepest condolensces to his friends and family.
RIP Mask
RIP Mask
Monday, March 2, 2009
Fresh Content is King
So I've been working on a few ways on getting updated content on the site not only on a daily basis, but even on a per second basis. I've been looking at a few successful models, and I've been testing to see if we can align those with what we want for the site. If we develop it correctly, we should be getting some killer SEO with it too.
The lesson I'm learning from this is that you have to go back to the bare basics, and definitely look out of the box. So far we are loving the results, including how easy it is to get legit content without having the need for contributors.
Ah yes, the quest for a totally autonomous site is a long one...but worth it.
The lesson I'm learning from this is that you have to go back to the bare basics, and definitely look out of the box. So far we are loving the results, including how easy it is to get legit content without having the need for contributors.
Ah yes, the quest for a totally autonomous site is a long one...but worth it.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
More Rambling
So my CPR/ Sports Injury course professor who is also a doctor checks out my eye. He says it's going to be fine and the eye poke just blew a blood vessel, hence the bleeding. If the eyeball was slit by a fingernail, infection should have stepped in much sooner...but luckily I was spared from that agony.
Back at the gym, my coaches and teammates strongly urge me to fight Brazilian Jiu-jitsu with the gi after my perfomance at NAGA. After seeing me roll again at the gym with the gi, they all agree I do way better fighting with pajamas on. I hate fighting gi, but if its my shot at winning a NAGA tourney, then so be it.
A chat with my coach also revealed that we shocked a good number of people for fighting at NAGA. Our group is known for being notorious strikers, and us competing all out at a grappling event was a complete surprise. Despite our loss, people said that all of us did well. We've been offered cross training by a lot of grappling gyms, which we will definitely be doing soon.
I was also recently asked by a local promoter to cover an opening of a new lounge in town. I'm not much of a nightlife photographer, because I find it boring and unchallenging as fuck. I don't drink either, so zero fun at all even if I had open bar benefits. My only consolation for doing such job is meeting new people, networking for my businesses, and getting paid cash at the end of the night. It also helps that there are some lookers in the crowd, like the blonde below:
Back at the gym, my coaches and teammates strongly urge me to fight Brazilian Jiu-jitsu with the gi after my perfomance at NAGA. After seeing me roll again at the gym with the gi, they all agree I do way better fighting with pajamas on. I hate fighting gi, but if its my shot at winning a NAGA tourney, then so be it.
A chat with my coach also revealed that we shocked a good number of people for fighting at NAGA. Our group is known for being notorious strikers, and us competing all out at a grappling event was a complete surprise. Despite our loss, people said that all of us did well. We've been offered cross training by a lot of grappling gyms, which we will definitely be doing soon.
I was also recently asked by a local promoter to cover an opening of a new lounge in town. I'm not much of a nightlife photographer, because I find it boring and unchallenging as fuck. I don't drink either, so zero fun at all even if I had open bar benefits. My only consolation for doing such job is meeting new people, networking for my businesses, and getting paid cash at the end of the night. It also helps that there are some lookers in the crowd, like the blonde below:
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
So I'm back from NAGA
Long story short, everyone on our team lost our matches, except our coach who took home silver. I got my eye poked and the ref didn't even see it. My eye is red. Looks bad ass and I can't wait to rock this in school later today. The wealth of knowledge we got from this event will help us out big time training for the next event in June. Had so much fun, and I am now an official grappling competitor...as opposed to a mere "hobbyist".
So the highlight of the weekend was that I met a whole lot of fighters who were actually using the product my business partner and I have been developing called Fight Soap (http://www.fight-soap.com/). We are considering to promote the product at the next event, and pretty much figured out the logistics after the event. More importantly, the people love the product...and gave us props for it. I felt like a rockstar.
So moral of the story at this point: Make a difference, and you will succeed.
This reinforces my ideas on the rebuild of the new site. Like I've stressed before, the old ways must be thrown out of the window. I checked out this new off-shoot site that some anonymous faggot has been constantly been spamming in here...and it pretty much proves my point.
Another lesson learned: Quit polishing a turd, and laugh at people who pick up said turd and try to polish it themselves.
lol
So the highlight of the weekend was that I met a whole lot of fighters who were actually using the product my business partner and I have been developing called Fight Soap (http://www.fight-soap.com/). We are considering to promote the product at the next event, and pretty much figured out the logistics after the event. More importantly, the people love the product...and gave us props for it. I felt like a rockstar.
So moral of the story at this point: Make a difference, and you will succeed.
This reinforces my ideas on the rebuild of the new site. Like I've stressed before, the old ways must be thrown out of the window. I checked out this new off-shoot site that some anonymous faggot has been constantly been spamming in here...and it pretty much proves my point.
Another lesson learned: Quit polishing a turd, and laugh at people who pick up said turd and try to polish it themselves.
lol
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Leaving for Rhode Island
The team and I are leaving late Friday to Rhode Island. We're fighting at NAGA New England on saturday. Getting my shit pushed in should be fun.
Backyard Bombshells
My partner and I have been pretty pleased with the performance of Backyard Bombshells (http://www.backyardbombshells.com/). It's first year of operations brought in way more members than R-Toyz.com ever had in the same period of time. It keeps on growing, and we have atleast one new member a day.
We've also decided not to accept new paid members, and just let existing memberships run out and expire. It no longer needs to be a paysite. We have enough funds to carry us through the year until we launch an innovative way to earn revenue that we've been working on. We've finally accomplished our goal to make the site completely free to join.
A friend of mine actually told me the other day that we've built a community similar to the Suicide Girls, but we don't have scary looking women in ours. Hearing that from him was awesome.
We've learned so many lessons from starting and running Backyard Bombshells that I am just dying to try out on the new R-Toyz.com derivative. The most important lesson is to treat a business as a business, and not as a hobby.
My business professor reinforced this idea last night in class too, using Newbury Comics (http://www.newburycomics.com/) as an example.
We've also decided not to accept new paid members, and just let existing memberships run out and expire. It no longer needs to be a paysite. We have enough funds to carry us through the year until we launch an innovative way to earn revenue that we've been working on. We've finally accomplished our goal to make the site completely free to join.
A friend of mine actually told me the other day that we've built a community similar to the Suicide Girls, but we don't have scary looking women in ours. Hearing that from him was awesome.
We've learned so many lessons from starting and running Backyard Bombshells that I am just dying to try out on the new R-Toyz.com derivative. The most important lesson is to treat a business as a business, and not as a hobby.
My business professor reinforced this idea last night in class too, using Newbury Comics (http://www.newburycomics.com/) as an example.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
