Why doesn’t Legal Zoom buy its competitors

Posted on May 15, 2012 by northwest

The biggest machine in our industry is Legalzoom.  You’ve all seen their ads on TV or heard them on the radio.  A lot of people in our industry always complain about them to me, saying things like “They get all the filings because they spend millions on advertising.”  I always kind of thought they spent 10-20 million a year.  The filing for LegalZoom Inc., to become a public company was fun to see the actual numbers and I have to be honest; I was really surprised to learn that they spend 41 MILLION a year in advertising.  That’s SO much money!!!

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my thoughts on LegalZoom Inc going Public LGZ

Posted on May 12, 2012 by northwest

First off, let me say congrats to all the LGZ employees and managers for such an accomplishment.  I hope all the employees and middle management got a little bit of this action on the LegalZoom IPO.

It’s pretty amazing for our industry to see the financials of such a massive company in such great detail as their required SEC filing: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286139/000104746912005763/a2209299zs-1.htm

There’s a bunch of things running through my head, but I’ll summarize a few points that stand out:

 

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i can see clearly now that the graffiti is gone

Posted on May 7, 2012 by northwest

I can see all obstacles in my way.

Did you know you can actually remove scratched graffiti from windows?  We just hired a guy last week and he basically sanded and buffed out window graffiti.  Basically he’s $100 per mark.  Pretty awesome.

If you need some window graffiti removed in Spokane try West Coast Window Cleaning at 509-325-9484.

If you’re not in spokane, try calling a window cleaning company.  It can be a lot cheaper than replacing a full window and re-tinting it.

 

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pay spokane homeless to pick up trash

Posted on May 4, 2012 by northwest

I’m continually amazed at how much trash is in downtown Spokane, but more amazed that the city of Spokane doesn’t pick it up, clean the streets, or clean the sidewalks.  I think we should pay the homeless 5 bucks a bag to pick it all up.

Image of trash scattered through a downtown Spokane alley

Most of the trash in downtown comes from the homeless.  Wouldn’t you be a little bitter watching people pull up in BMW’s all day to go eat at $50 plate steakhouses and you were sleeping on the street?  There’s not very many trash recepticals because I don’t think the city wants to deal with emptying them.  There’s no public bathrooms.  I see a new pile of human poop every day.  My dog finds them on our walks.  So it makes sense that the trash gets thrown out if there’s no where to put it.

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Why New Mexico Corporations Commission takes so long

Posted on April 20, 2012 by northwest

So for about a year the New Mexico Corporations Commission has totally sucked at doing filings.  It’s so weird.  It’s almost so weird that it doesn’t make sense.

At first the excuse was that they were updating their internal systems and websites.  Then the excuse was that they were moving office locations.  Then it was that all the staff quit.

When you call them you’re lucky if they pick up the phone, and now when you call them, they just say “Hello.”  They don’t even answer the phone with a title…

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posting my 2011 tax return online again

Posted on March 29, 2012 by northwest


Thought I’d share my 2011 tax return with everyone again.  Hey got it done 1 day quicker than last year!  A lot of people enjoyed seeing our 2010 tax return online last year, so thought I might as well keep up the new tradition.

What a freaking mess.  It’s amazing how absurd we make doing business nationwide for people.  I think the main reason our clients love our client tools is that we design and build them to actually help US run a business in every state.  So you get the benefit of this as our client.

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Rick Santorum Doesn’t tithe but wants the Christian vote?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by northwest

So I was watching fox news last night and the guy was interviewing Rick Santorum.

They showed that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both tithed or donated 13-14% of their income to churches or charities.

THE AMAZING THING:

Rick Santorum only did 1.8%!!!!!!!!  And hasn’t done any more than that since 2006.

Man, Fox News just puts the hammer down on the hypocrisy of some of these candidates.

First of all, Rick Santorum is heavily marketing himself as the Christian conservative alternative.  He is going after the religious vote.  It’s just that plain and simple.

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