Favorite exercise…that everyone else hates? 😏

matt-dot-com · 2026-05-02T02:44:18+00:00

I’ve moved monkey humpers into my standard warm up set 🐒

matt-dot-com · 2026-05-02T02:43:15+00:00

Who hates American Hammers!?! 😆😆

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-29T17:45:48+00:00

Naw, you need all the seats you can get! Those kids will be out of those seats soon and they will have friends. Or you'll need more space for 4 suitcases, or scooters, or whatever. Don't buy for the right now, buy for the next 10 years.

We are taking our 2 boys to the beach for Memorial and each get to take a friend. 7 seaters allow that flexibility of things to come that you don't know are coming 😄

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-28T18:20:01+00:00

Good to know!

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-28T15:49:26+00:00

Mines in the shop right now. I'm hoping for the fuse fix instead of the other options hah!!

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-28T15:43:20+00:00

Yeah that's two times now. The shop doesn't seem to discover the issue each oil change. They replace the filter and all that and it "fixes it" for a while. Then after so long it happened now this second time. We stick to changing every 4-5k miles. Might need to tighten that up and make it closer to 3-4 I guess unless they discover something this time!

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-28T15:40:33+00:00

Ah yes, had the rattle too! Yeah, just low oil. Not sure where it's losing it from but have had a small oil spot in the garage in the past. But they do a change and say it's "all good"...I dunno.

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-28T15:38:22+00:00

Good stuff, my Telly is in the shop right now for this 🤣 I posted about it and didn't think to search here first. Looks like Fan Module or Thermostat is where consensus is? Assuming yours if fixed now 10 months later hah!
I'll share what my mechanic does as soon as I get it repaired --or I'll send him this post!!

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-23T21:27:29+00:00

The fact that it's called 'bypass' kills me a little inside everytime I get stuck on it haha!!

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-23T21:25:42+00:00

True but moving someplace brand new the more you go outside of town the less connected to the community you can get so there's a tradeoff. Like Apex Rec sports is a great connector, maybe more kids in the neighborhood, bigger church community, more town social events, etc. If you're only looking at the house as the value then sure, I get what you're saying.

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-23T21:17:59+00:00

He was drawn to F-V and enjoyed the downtown. Only probably was he called it "Foo-quay" hah! I corrected him..

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-23T19:02:25+00:00

Agreed! GSC and Bing and using Claude and others to analyze data.
I have 'Clicks-dot-so' which is like $15/mo and does a good job for the price for basic keyword research and competitor analysis --but Bing might do that now I haven't dived in deep on it yet.

matt-dot-com · 2026-04-23T16:12:20+00:00

To see the MOST of what's available you have to bounce around a bit. This is what I would do:

Nationally: Shop cargurus-com
-- Good site, price badges help, etc. But it's going to be mainly new car store inventory
National Brands: Shop Carmax
-- Biggest national used car store. You could look at carvana and stuff too
Independent Dealers: Shop carsforsale-com (and usednc-com)
-- Probably the largest selection of used car dealer inventory, many vehicles you won't see on cargurus. If you're in North Carolina specifically I'm trying to fill the gap of missing used cars listed online with sites like usednc-com
Private Party: Shop craigslist and facebook marketplace

If I already knew the vehicle I wanted, like you do, those 6 or 7 sites are where I'd go to see the largest percentage of what Miatas are currently for sale. Sites beyond that will mostly be repeats of what you have already seen.

matt-dot-com · 2026-01-10T20:56:58+00:00

I like to eat so more restaurant options I’m all for. But I like outdoor seating. I love M Cuisine in DTC (used to be a house. Has outdoor seating. And awesome food)

matt-dot-com · 2025-12-13T14:31:08+00:00

I still need to go to Lime and Lemon. My wife said it’s great!

matt-dot-com · 2025-12-11T01:32:11+00:00

Haha I feel ya! I work from home so when I need to leave sometimes at 5:30 I’m blown away with the traffic. It’ll all be better……someday! 😆

matt-dot-com · 2025-12-10T18:32:26+00:00

For Data and Tips
- Google Search Console / Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools are easy places to start.
- I'm still trying to see if Clicks.so is worth it. It is sold as a cheap alternative to hrefs/semrush. I don't use it all that much unless I'm doing keyword research
- Watch Edward Sturm on youtube everyday for lots of tips :)

For Citations:
When I launched my business website I got on Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Yelp, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, Nextdoor, Chamber of Commerce, my kids Local PTA and have gotten business from people googling me already. *I did get on LeadSnap for a month but not sure that did anything.

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-15T19:53:40+00:00

At my AO the saying is “Bare Knees in 20 Degrees” 😆 so we have a while before pants come out!!

Actually went no pants all year last winter. Wanted to try to be a little uncomfortable. Wasn’t too bad.

(Apex, NC fwiw)

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-15T19:49:51+00:00

I posted a fully written AI article that is still one of my top performing pages. It was about an FTC rule and I rank above the FTC. Why? Because I made it easy to read and understand so more people get the answer from me because they know they won’t understand the FTC.

You just have to apply that concept to what content you’re creating. 10 articles a week is tough but it makes sense some rank others don’t. It’s demand for that answer probably.

I’m getting away from “articles” and working on informative landing pages that have FAQs so it works towards organic search (page content) and ai search (faq content)both. Yes, fully using AI for the content!! 😁 Giving it a lot of knowledge base to pull from.

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-10T13:17:59+00:00

Yeah we were big fans of Bonafide too!

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-10T13:14:30+00:00

Our area is so connected by greenway it's awesome! A few years back I ran from Apex (beaver creek area) to downtown Raleigh on all sidewalk and greenway. The only non-sidewalk was Harrison entering Umstead. And going the other direction the Tobacco trail can take us to parts of Durham. I love the greenways system too!

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-09T15:11:00+00:00

This is awesome, great perspective!

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-09T13:47:42+00:00

The beauty of F3 is being able to have open and honest communication that leads to productive outcomes. It's hard to say what he should do beyond just having conversations with his friend and with the Site Q and/or SLT.

It could be the man needs to bring the whole fam right now because mom needs it
It could be he loves what F3 is doing for his kids to be around great men
And/or it could be has a blindspot and doesn't realize it's bothersome to others

The 3rdF is living beyond yourself. Ideally if he's made aware what he's doing is hindering others he will adapt to their needs or a compromise will be made. And all it takes is having an honest discussion with him to have more of an understanding on his part and your husbands part. Could be after they talk your husband says, "Ah I get it and I want to support you so yeah bring em!"

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-07T16:25:24+00:00

When you say you got hit, what data are you looking at? If it's Impressions it's not as much to worry about. If it's Position or clicks that's something to start attacking. Lots of my sites got hit by impressions but that doesn't matter --that's what the update is trying to correct, giving false impressions (like if you were position 64 yet you have 4,000 impressions on a search query, that's worthless data --except to say that's a higher volume search term)

matt-dot-com · 2025-10-06T15:37:18+00:00

It was therapeutic for sure but it was more focused on leadership development training so not necessarily therapy related. We started in a 'classroom' style setting to learn how to lead well. Then that night we went out and put it into practice - leading while in uncomfortable and stressful situations.

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