For some reason, a lot entrepreneurs, like Noah Kagan of OkDork.com, love burritos. In fact, I just had my first official burrito last Saturday at Qdoba. Those things are huge! Coincidentaly, burrito places like Chipotle are proving to be spectacular businesses and even more, they seem to be one of the best marketers around. Just take a look at Chipotle’s hilarius marketing campaigns for it’s burritos that I’m sure you’ve seen driving down the interstate.

Check out all of Chipotle’s hilarious ads at www.chipotle.com.

I’m curious as to what all the other entrepreneurs prefer out there. What’s your favorite burrito?

As you probably know, I’ve been a part of the MindPetals network for quite a while now. MindPetals boasts an impressive network with members doing everything from Internet Marketing to starting their own diamond ventures. David Askaripour, the founder of MindPetals, has done a phenomenal job with the site and it’s growth.

The thing I like about MindPetals the most, however, is how helpful and supportive it’s founder Dave is to it’s members. It is clear he is an avid writer and churns out meaningful articles by the boatload. But what’s really impressive is his likeliness to help out a member in the network. For example, he’ll even interview all your competitors for you just to get a member the latest scoop on his competition! I can definitely say I’m pretty up-to-date on all my competitors . MindPetals has received some criticism on it’s similarities to 9rules (even right down to the logo!); However, I find that David is doing something different and creating an entirely new place for all us young entrepreneurs to play and network. I find David’s efforts extremely supportive and he is growing a great network of entrepreneurs at MindPetals. Aside from MindPetals, Dave also runs the blogs Flush the toilet and Marktale. Keep it up Dave and way to go on the support for the network!

Being the hardcore bootstrapper I am, I’ve turned down every opportunity to borrow money (Although, recently I’ve been told that borrowing money doesn’t make you a non-bootstrapper). The thing is I have about $6000 in mutual funds and I’m having a hard time deciding whether I should borrow money as opposed to selling the mutual fund shares. I know it seems like if I have money, why not use it? However, at the same time, it’s a lot less liquid and will take some time for those funds to become usable. So if you were me, would you:

1) Borrow money and pay interest in the end

2) Sell the mutual funds (Already with gains of 24%)

With the holiday season fast approaching, you’re bound to see those classic Norelco commercials with the Norelco Santa sliding down a snowy slope on a Norelco electric shaver. This year, however, Norelco is trying something new. With the immense success of viral video marketing, Norelco is jumping on the bandwagon. I clicked on an ad, which I rarely do, I was led to a site for the new Norelco Body Groomer. The site features a smug guy in a bathrobe answering all your questions about the body groomer. There’s also a hilarious music video to go along with the Q&A. Check it out, but be warned that most of it is pretty vulgar.

http://www.shaveeverywhere.com

Thanks to everyone who subscribed to my blog. It was more people than I expected to be honest .

We’re about a week away from finals here at Rutgers so things are starting to get busy again. Finals also means it’s about time to go all out on marketing. Hits are going up on Walamu and an growing number of people are hearing about it here. I have one final crazy marketing stunt set up for the final week. I’ll let you know how that goes.

The end of the semester also means winter break is about to start. There are several things I want to accomplish during this time, but mainly I’ll be catching up on some must-reads:

• The Richest Man in Babylon
• The World is Flat
• Automatic Wealth for Grads
• Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
• The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook
• The Magic of Thinking Big
• Permission Marketing
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buying Foreclosures
• Cash Flow Quadrant
• How to Win Friends & Influence People

If anyone has already read any of these books, please let me know your thoughts on them!

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I’ll be working on getting my readership up right after finals are done, not that that is my major focus, as I’ve always just let whoever manages to find my site, find my site. Nonetheless, it’d be nice to see some new readers once in a while.

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icraveWordPress, one of the many sites on the icraveNetwork, was recently launched. icraveWordPress is one of the first sites of it’s kind. No longer do bloggers have to search through an endless array of themes to find the ones they like and then download each one of them individually. icraveWordPress allows users to see what a theme looks like right on the page you are on (the page automatically converts to the theme you would like to see), as well as allows users to download
a multitude of themes with a single download as opposed to downloading individual themes one by one. The site has various sets of themes available for download by alphabetical set (i.e., themes starting with A-C).

In my opinion, this site is just what any new or current blogger needs to get just the right theme working for their site. No longer do you have to worry about downloading a theme just to find out that it doesn’t work. icraveWordPress’ themes are sure to work as they aggregate all the working WordPress blog themes. I personally know the pain of having to find themes that I like and download them each individually. No more of that. With icraveWordPress I’ll be downloading all the themes I need with just one click.

Actually nevermind, no smacking needed. I’ve come to my senses.

It’s easy to say that I’ve been busy with classes and keeping up a high GPA in order get into business school, but that doesn’t really cut it. I’ve got a world of opportunities here! I need to wake up and get going! None of my dreams are going to become a reality unless I continue to work hard towards them. I’m in need of some serious visualization. I know where I want to go; I just need to visualize it and work towards that vision.

Here are some things that I’m coming to visualize right now:

Near Term
December 23, 2006- Have at least 500 new postings on Walamu and take my guerrilla marketing to the fullest. I don’t care if I end up having to (carefully) resort to credit cards; this is my one and only chance to dominate in the college classifieds arena and make Walamu something huge.

Spring 2007- Run for class president, but DON”T win (I really don’t want to run to win; it’s more about getting myself out there and expanding my comfort zone)

August 2007- Buy my first foreclosure and have found roommates to pay mortgage. This is going to save me from paying 10 grand a year living in a dorm and have nothing to show for it.

Long Term

August 2009- Have mastered the art of flipping property and successfully have flipped a number of properties.

August 2010- If I do decide to work for a bit right after college, I will use those earnings to earn a huge return playing several small cap stocks and continue to play the small cap stocks I currently own (that is if they remain to be classified as ‘small cap’ stocks) for that year as I already know how to do (Just need the cash!!).
October 2010 / Age 23- Purchase this beautiful Las Vegas home.

2013 / Age 26- Purchase a Ferrari 360 Modena.

I gotta go- a lot more entrepreneuring to do .

Adam McFarland of SportsLizard Entrepreneur Blog recently wrote an awesome review on Walamu. Check it out here.

P.S. Check out our contest winner’s site here.

Josiah Mackenzie of MyPalPad.com was cool enough to do an interview with me about Walamu. Check out the interview here.

P.S. Check out our contest winner’s site here.