Erik Minkel

entrepreneurship

Aloha Lawns: Developing with SEO in mind

Disclaimer: I'm not an SEO expert, I just develop things. I'm speaking with past experience growing and ranking local service businesses. I've never understood the idea of businesses touting they pay "$$$" per month for SEO. From my experience your ranking moves up organically as your site becomes more set in

Adversity creates character

It's been a tough week or two since landing on one of the many beautiful islands in Hawaii. The rental market here is currently really tough to get into a place, with many rentals seeing over 40+ applicants a day, you can imagine the load on landlords and property managers.

The beginning of my entrepreneurship life

The beginning of my entrepreneurship life

The dust is settling from leaving the daily cubicle grind and moving temporarily 350 miles across the state. The overall plan to be financially independent has been playing out as designed. I haven't felt so free in my life over the last few days. I still feel i'll be smacked

That feeling when you're about to ship a product

Ahh yeah...sit back, relax and let the customers roll in right after you hit publish. It's always good to reflect on your product. You're likely to have learned and have grown since you began building it however long ago. After I've slowed on development of a web application I

2015: Year in Review

The good 'ole review post for the past year. Looking back at what my goals were for my previous review and contemplating the future is always energizing to me. Let's take a look at that previous list of goals for 2015 and see what I tried and attempted and what