Scott Fish

Starbucks Corp announced today it plans to close 600 underperforming stores and eliminate as many as 12,000 full- and part-time positions. Howard Schultz, the coffee chain's founder and chief executive, retook the helm in January and quickly announced plans to shutter 100 underperforming outlets. With U.S. sales growth slowing, he slashed plans for store openings and shifted the company's most...

Google just announced that they're going to changing the DoubleClick Perfomics network into the Google Affiliate Network. So Why is GoogleAffiliateNetwork.com registered to gperformics@yahoo.com & domain.tech@yahoo-inc....

JetskiRentalsCalifornia.co m is for sale - this name makes enough to pay for it's self many times over during the summer time. Please get in touch with me if you're interested if owning this great category+geo domain! (that's not me, by the way )...

Google has launched their own affiliate network, scrapping the DoubleClick Performics brand and creating the google affiliate network. This is a very strong sign that Google will be announcing a sale of the Performics brand very soon. It looks like they are keeping the affiliate part, however. Here's the email that I received about the google affiliate network: We are pleased to introduce Google...

What's the next big investment idea that is gaining steam, or should I say... Carbon? Carbon Sciences is a company is Santa Barbara, CA that is that is putting a spin on the problem of green house gases. The company is taking carbon and treating it with low-cost technology that combines captured CO2 with water and tailings, the waste mineral products from mining operations, to produce...

MissionViejo.org is for sale. Mission Viejo is a city in California with 97,997 people as of 2006. Presumably, it's over 100k now. The .com owner is asking $100,000. The .net owner wont sell. The city of Mission Viejo uses... CityOfMissionViejo.org. MissionViejo.org is currently semi-built out and has decent rankings across the 3 major search engines. If you're interested in purchasing this...

Keeping up with the latest trends used to be as easy as turning on the TV or reading your daily newspaper. The world moves at a very fast pace – today, trends change as quickly as Google changes their Algorithm. So how do you keep up with the latest keywords that people are searching for– I have identified several sources that are great for any search marketing professional to watch on...