Browsing all posts in January, 2009.

San Diego Coffee Shop Review

After the first month of being an entrepreneur and running San Diego Online Marketing Agency, BigTuna Interactive, I have started setting up my portable office (MacBook Pro, BlackBerry Storm, shades and yours truly) at coffee shops around town.  Below is a review of the locations that I’ve hit up so far.

Cafe 976, Pacific Beach. I [...]

Adobe customer support sucks

Had the worst experience with Adobe customer support this morning. To summarize:

Called 5 times.
Had my call dropped 3 times at the 20 minute mark.
Repeated all my information 10 times.
Customer support reps barely understood english.

Adobe makes some great products. However, the post sales help is brutal.

A Designed Life with Joe Duffy

The San Diego Ad Club had the priviledge of having Joe Duffy present to their membership today. This presentation follows the “Ad Legends program”, where Alex Bogusky and Jeff Goodby previously spoke.
Joe Duffy is one of the world’s most accomplished designers. His client roster is really whose who in the world.  Joe was in town [...]

Bubs in Pacific Beach Remodeled

Last night I checked out Bubs in my stomping grounds of Pacific Beach. They purchased the building next to theirs, knocked out a wall and made it a lot wider. Some of my friends are not fond of the expansion. Their complaint is that it takes away from Bub’s small dive bar atmosphere.
I personally like [...]

My Life is Free

Today is the first official day in which I am a full time entrepreneur! I left my job as Marketing Director at CommUSA to start up San Diego Online Marketing Agency BigTuna Interactive. I will continue to manage CommUSA’s online marketing efforts as their agency of record.

You have brains in your head and feet [...]