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I just spent last weekend at Yanik Silver's Underground Seminar 2006. I thought about reviewing it in this blog but after I started putting down my thoughts I saw that I had so much material that I put it all up on a separate web page - My Days at Yanik Silver's Underground Seminar 2006.

The quick bottom line? The first days speakers were so underwhelming that I almost gave up and asked for my refund (I was frantically trying to remember the code name I had to ask for to get my money back). But I'm glad I stuck it out since there were two terrific speakers in the morning on the second day and another on the third day.

3 good speakers out of 11 isn't what I expected, and there were hardly any sort of "underground secrets" revealed during seminar, but there was just enough interesting points to make the experience worthwhile. But I would have been a whole lot happier had each of the speakers brought to the seminar the type of information these three did.

For the full story, see my review at My Days at Yanik Silver's Underground Seminar 2006.

Posted by David Rosenberg at 06:21 AM | Permalink

What a weekend - it started out with a bang on Friday when the Wall Street Journal ran an article on memory foam mattress topper pads and named our topper pad "Best Value". Then I spent the weekend at an Internet Marketing Seminar while Brian got hit with the calls and emails. All in all it has been great publicity for our topper pad, and you can read the article at The ABCs of Getting Some Zs .

As for the Internet Marketing Seminar, I can't remember the last time I sat through lectures which started at 8 am. And way back then I didn't have two little girls staying awake till all hours in the night. The actual seminar was a very mixed bag, and I will be writing about on a new blog all about running an Internet retail website. When I get it set up I will post the URL so you can take a look and let me know what type of questions you have about running an ecommerce business on the Internet.

Posted by David Rosenberg at 08:30 AM | Permalink

Here's a recent question we got on using a memory foam mattress topper pad on a sofa bed::

"I have a new sofa bed with a 5 inch mattress. But it still is uncomfortable. Will a mattress topper work in a sofa bed and will it close if I leave it on?"

This questions brings up a bigger issue - which is whether a memory foam mattress topper pad can help make a sofa bed more comfortable.

In general, the answer is probably no. The problem with a sofa bed is that it is usually too soft (because the bed sits on a metal spring type surface) and our topper pad will just make it even softer. A memory foam topper pad will help with the issue of feeling the metal rods that support the sofa bed, but there is a better answer that will help with both the rod issue and make the sofa bed feel firmer. It is a Sofa Bed Support, and it basically is a solid surface (plywood I'm guessing) that you put over the bars and metal mesh and under the sofa bed. This solution gives you a firmer surface for the sofa bed to lay on and also gets rid of the whole bar problem.

If you still wanted to get a memory foam mattress topper for a sofa bed - you just like the cushy feel - you would need to store it when you aren't using it separately from the sofa bed. The topper is just too thick to allow you to fold it into the bed.

Posted by David Rosenberg at 12:39 PM | Permalink