Archive for the 'Completely Off-Topic' category

Challenge Coins in the Sandbox

What! Challenge coins in a sandbox…no not that kind of sandbox silly. Today U.S. Challenge Coins has to finally bow to Google and the almighty new site sandbox. This is where a new domain or site gets “sandboxed” for strong keywords. We have not ranked in Google for any normal keywords our site should rank for like “Custom Challenge Coins”, “Challenge Coins”, “Military Challenge Coins”, or anything else someone would think to type in to find us. We went strong for about 4 weeks and everyone could find us with ease. Then the nasty hit us on March 30th. We were gone and without a trace. Read the rest of this entry »

Inventory Sucks and I am Tired

Well I have been working on inventory all weekend. A lot of people have no idea what goes into bringing you new coins, patches, and pins. Most people think I has a whole office of people to do data entry…nope. It’s just me, and maintaining 1000+ items is no small tasks especially when you throw in the blogging, podcasts, articles, other websites and everythign else you want to add. This is not to pat myself on the back, rather to explain more about the inventory procedures. Read the rest of this entry »