Scott Hayes's (scotthayes) Blog

One of my favorite magazines, and best kept secrets in Austin, is Austin Fit Magazine. The montly magazine does a great job of covering our very fitness oriented city. Each issue is diverse in it's coverage of healthy recipes, various gyms around town, running and biking, and fitness events all a...

A financial channel I watch, asked millionaires what was the single most important factor to attaining wealth. The majority said not incurring large amounts of debt was the number one reason for their financial success. As with most things in life, it's sensible and simple, yet unique. Millions o...

We are almost at the halfway point of the year. Actually, it will be July 2nd. Regardless, it is a good time to reflect on the marketing ideas we came up with at the beginning of the year. My idea was to get a Rainmaker account on Activerain and attempt to blog, not only on this platform, but oth...

The stage at Stubbs BBQ will be smoking as celebrity chefs turn up the heat on Bad to the Bone Chef Smackdown, Round Two. The culinary competition combines star chefs, rowdy judges, audience text voting & DJ tunes from Austin favorite, Manola Black on June 26, 8 pm @ Stubbs back yard amphitheater...

Great South Austin duplex for lease. Three bedrooms, two baths. Very large backyard. Updated appliances. Updated appliances, cul de sac. Extra storage, Vaulted ceilings, nice open floolrplan.    

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine called, to inform me he had a great money making idea. A realtor at his gym wears a t shirt advertising his business, complete with phone number and his web address. My friend noticed it, and asked the agent about it. Apparently, the t shirt starts conversations ...

I often hear pundits refer to a politician, or the country as a whole as having a pre 9/11 mentality. That being that our country went through a fundamental change on that day, never to be what it was. The same could be said for December 7, 1941, and there are other dates of great significance in...

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It may be 2010 on the calender, but Friday June 18 it will be 1988 all over again. Salt n Pepa, Biz Markie (Friends), Rob Base (It Take Two) and Big Daddy Kane will be performing at Austin Music Hall. Austin Music Hall is a great venue, and old and new fans alike can see this collection of 80's r...

I was driving back in to town, after an out of town trip. I was on a highway- not an interstate, but a highway that runs about seventy miles, much of it through the norhern part of Austin. A billboard advertised availability for $650 a month. It made me think, not a bad price to get tens of thous...