Living in Hawaii – Moving to Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island

This is a letter from a woman that wants to know about starting an eco tourism business in Hawaii after her and her family move to the islands. I didn’t know how to answer to give her anything to go on really, except a healthy dose of reality… Hawaii is not the place to start [...]

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I was going to just send a pic of this backpack to my friend Jon – an Oahu native, now living in Thailand – but then I thought – this deserves a whole post. I bought this DAKINE backpack for about $140 USD at a small business on the right side of the street looking [...]

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Starting a Business – Not Recommended Hawaii is not a great place to start a business in my personal opinion. Many people try, but I think the failure rate is higher in Hawaii than other places. Number one – there is a lot of competition in areas that matter – like tourism. If you don’t [...]

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Some end of the year and beginning of the year thoughts… I pulled up two months of stats to see what I could see about this site and what people wanted that were reaching us through the search engines and other channels. As you can see by the info-graphic below, most of our visitors were [...]

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Lifehacker is one of my favorite sites, has been for years. They just came out with their 2012 guide – The Best Time to Buy Anything in 2012 Life in Hawaii is astronomically expensive, and this guide can help you save a couple hundred dollars in a year. I know I always seem to buy [...]

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Aloha Vern, Just wanted to thank you for the great information you post to AimforAwesome.com! Also wanted to share a local website that my wife and I have created called Happy Hour Hawaii (.com). We have nearly 150 happy hours throughout the islands, and the restaurants manage their profiles themselves. We also have GPS based [...]

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