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Moving to Tamarindo, Costa Rica

by Brendan Wenzel

in Personal Stories

This time next week, I’ll be watching a beautiful sunset over the beaches of Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Except I’m not going for vacation, I’m moving to Tamarindo, Costa Rica.

The motivation to move to Tamarindo, Costa Rica was peaked in early June when I had went there for a one week surf vacation. It was one of the most epic trips of my life.

It’s biggest attraction to me was the laid back and happy feeling you get from all the locals. They are extremely nice and welcoming. Two words some up the people in Tamarindo, “Pura Vida“! Which directly translates into Pure Life.

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Main Street Marketing Machines

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If you haven’t heard the news yet, Traffic Geyser’s Mike Koenigs is relaunching his local marketing consulting coaching program under the name Main Street Marketing Machines. His last coaching program, Firepower, has apparently had outstanding results which he will share this week. As I’m sure you’re aware, one of my primary businesses is working with [...]

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Lessons Learned from Two Short Lived EBay Businesses

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This is the story about how I created two separate short lived EBay businesses that could have been leveraged into a sustainable model, but I wasn’t paying attention to the possibilities that were right in front of my eyes. Two lessons learned!

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First Profitable Internet “Business”

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My first profitable internet business was in high school when a friend of mine showed me this computer game called “Ultima Online”. It was a multi player role playing game that had tons of players. They would beef up their characters and basically act as if they were the character. My first thought was “Why [...]

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My Day With the PGA at the TPC

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Yesterday, Wednesday May 6th, 2009, I spent the day following and watching some of the world’s best golfers practice for the upcoming tournament, The Players Championship. This tournament is played yearly at the TPC of Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, FL, just south of Jacksonville. The course is in awesome shape! We were there so early [...]

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