Paris Vega’s Blog
Documenting my many failures and few successes as I explore the world. I discuss design, web development, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship.
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Why take risks?
It’s easy to convince yourself that if you never take risks, you will always be safe. If you don’t move, if you don’t speak up, if…
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Starting a watch brand… or maybe not.
I started building a watch brand in 2019. It didn’t work out. Here’s the story about what happened during one of many entrepreneurial experiments I pursued…
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How to start a business and make your first sale?
I started an entire podcast about this exact question. It’s called the First Customers podcast. I ask entrepreneurs, sales experts, and marketers how they got their…
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Boost Your Sales with These 6 Proven SEO Strategies
I started my first job in the SEO industry in 2002 as a part-time assistant at an internet marketing company located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama called Evision…
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Growth in chaos.
Nothing is guaranteed in business. Starting a company is hard. Running a company successfully is even harder. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the…
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Build your own school
Build your own school by focusing on a better way to teach school-age kids, which can be summarized with the following: Build connections with reality by…
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The Abundance Diet vs Harmless Eating
While studying permaculture and tending my own garden years ago, I started to notice that the Earth is capable of producing a surprisingly abundant amount of…
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Alabama man saves family from attacker on gameday (True Story)
The green tea tea-bagger strikes again! Tuscaloosa, AL – An Alabama man, Sean Lee, was enjoying a Saturday morning bath while his wife and two young…
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Powering the People
There is a sovereign human drive inside us all that chants these basic desires: Let us be free. Let us speak. Let us learn what we…
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People pay for dopamine.
There are dopamine makers and takers. Entertainers are dopamine makers. Bad teachers are dopamine takers. Entertainers, artists, athletes create our culture. We pay them for it.
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Starting a Digital Marketing Department at a Web Design Agency
In January 2020, I joined The Nine, a website design and development company, to start a digital marketing department as their Marketing Director. Their existing web design clients…
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Asteroid Mining Self Replicating Robots
What if we made an asteroid mining ship/robot that “hauls” the mined materials by using them to build onto itself, or replicating?
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Permaculture.
All humans need these three things: Clean air, clean water, and clean food. Everybody wants them. Everybody needs them. Sadly, the concept of a clean “environment”…
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Explaining Pi
One day my wife and I noticed our boy, 6 at the time, repeating something to himself while holding a dollar bill. Suddenly, he says, “I…
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May your art never die.
The Xbox cable brushes against the guitar strings. They mutter a cautious chirp from behind the TV. Frightened, the guitar blasts me with guilt and musical…
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Idea: Pay-as-you-leave shopping experience
Idea Summary:– swipe card or facial recognition connected to your account as you enter store– put stuff in cart and leave store, items detected by RFID…
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Floating Simple Robots: Sketch Meditation Day 3 (WIP)
That feeling when you walk into a room full of floating robots…
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Sketch Meditation Day 1 (WIP)
Starting a new sketching habit each day of whatever shapes or imagery feels good to my brain at the moment. This started while drawing with my…
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Idea: Child Car Monitor
Product Inspired by the Cooper Harris accident. Features Always on solar powered camera wifi connected camera view in mobile/web app motion & sound sensors other life…
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Idea: Data Visualizations from text documents
Product / Service: Infobot Concept: Data Visualizations from text documents Create data visualizations from idea documents, or any text documents, by using some kind of smart…