Community Bancorp (CMTV) – Buy
Still my largest holding and a great opportunity. Once again, I added more to my position today in Community Bancorp (CMTV) at $16.10. Why Community Bancorp? The stock has fluctuated a lot most likely due to overall market pressures and due to trading over the counter. However, the company is very stable, growing and is located […]
Take Advantage of Our 20% Off Sale on Wondermugs!
As some of you know we purchased the Wondermugs business recently after years of successfully selling them on our other retail websites champlaincoffee.com and niftycoolgifts.com. We have spent the last year rebuilding the business from the ground up and we starting to see real progress! A big thank you to all those that helped so […]
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) – Buy
I initiated a new position last week in Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) at $1,657.24. It is our 8th largest position at this time. Reason for current opportunity The share price for Amazon has been under pressure because of a variety of threats: Inability to make significant profits from the amazon.com retail business. Political/social pressure from their growing size […]
Why You Need to Switch Your Website to HTTPS (SSL) by July 2018
Sometime in July 2018, Google Chrome browser will start warning users that any site is not safe to use if it doesn’t have sitewide SSL. It’s also a small ranking factor in Google’s search results. I suspect it will be become a more important factor going forward. Here is what it will look like: You […]
iDNS and Cpanel scams
A few clients have received letters/emails related to two types of scams. iDNS Scam First, the iDNS domain registration scam where they send letters that look like the one below near registration renewal time appearing to be a renewal letter. However, they are actually trying to trick you into transferring your domain registration to their […]
WooCommerce 3.3 Upgrade Issues
WooCommerce 3.3.3 has been released. This is a minor update. However, 3.3.0 had some substantial changes. Some of the changes include: Orders Screen Redesign: looks much better! On Backorder stock status and stock management – products can now have “On Backorder” stock status. Greater theme support/customization Image size improvements and more. Click here for more […]
Windows Hosting Accounts Migrated to New Server
All Windows Hosting servers have been now migrated to a new data center. You should already received the new url to access your Plesk account and the login details are the same. Please review the website to make sure there are no issues. If you see any issues, please let us know so that we can […]
AdvantageCreations.com Website Redeveloped
We have begun to roll out our new website design! Before we had a hybrid of both Drupal and WordPress. Now everything is in WordPress and we are now using Woocommerce (our preferred shopping cart) to manage all transactions. If you are a current client you should be receiving a new login shortly. If you […]
Burlington Business Association (BBA) 2014 Waterfront “FAM” Tour
We’re back at Advantage Creations headquarters from the Burlington Business Association (BBA) 2014 Waterfront “FAM” Tour, Sponsored by Spirit of Ethan Allen. The annual theme of meeting is to, “hear what [Burlington] Waterfront businesses have in store for Burlington this summer!” Many companies and locations on the Burlington waterfront are already open for summer business! Many […]
Future of Freedom Foundation with Young Americans for Liberty at UVM
On 4/11/2014, Jacob G. Hornberger and Sheldon Richman of The Future of Freedom Foundation held a talk at UVM hosted by the UVM chapter of Young Americans for Liberty. It was a very good talk focused getting government out of our daily lives and out of foreign affairs. It seemed that the biggest area of […]
What do Residents of the New North End Want?
A survey as been put out by the @NorthEndNPA asking what residents want for their community. Anyone is welcome to comment on this. I just submitted my comments, which are below. I had trouble with the form, but you can also email them to [email protected] like a did. The survey: http://goo.gl/gv9Ab5 My responses to selected questions are below: […]
How to Change the Future with Brian David Johnson – Intel Futurist
Brian David Johnson (@IntelFuturist) describes his job as Futurist at Intel as telling the company what people will be doing 10-15 years into the future so that they can plan the technology now. Below are some notes Heavenly and I took from the lecture: Johnson said he “Wants to design things that embrace the complexities […]