Greg Greenamyer

Restaurant marketing.
Customer retention over customer acquisition.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Rick, I think this is the part most people are missing.

While some of us are going deeper with AI—thinking with it, challenging ideas, building on previous conversations, and creating a real foundation—most people seem to be doing the opposite.

They’re searching for the perfect prompt.

Chasing the newest AI tool.

Building another agent.

Jumping to the next shiny object before they’ve fully understood the last one.

The real power of AI, at least for me, hasn’t come from finding some magical prompt. I don't even use prompts, I have conversations. It has come from the depth and continuity of the relationship.

A lifetime of experience gives AI something to work with. Then every conversation, every idea explored, every assumption challenged, and every lesson learned compounds on what came before.

That’s the part I think people are underestimating.

AI isn’t the shortcut. The compounding is the advantage.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Great post—this really hits home for me. I’ll be turning 70 later this month.

I don’t look old.
I don’t feel old.
I don’t act old (ask my wife).

The combination of experience, scars, curiosity, and drive is hard to beat.

A new client testimonial summed it up perfectly:
“It’s that spot that puts you above everybody else… where technology and business merge—and Greg just does it so seamlessly.”

And as a bonus, my grandkids still come to me with their tech questions :-)

[Pam Moore @PamMktgNut]

If you treat AI like a threat,
you’ll resist it.

If you treat AI like a toy,
you’ll misuse it.

If you treat AI like a partner,
you’ll amplify your thinking.

Leadership shows up in how you engage it.

#AI

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

@PamMktgNut @Cloudflare Looked at @cloudflare site and I don't see any pricing

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Just finished my first Flow with @klaviyo Very intuitive UX.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Congratulations to Chef Toni Elkhouri of Cedars Cafe in Melbourne, FL for being chosen as a James Beard Foundation 2026 Restaurant and Chef Award Semifinalist

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Quick restaurant reality check:

If your best customers disappeared tomorrow,
could you easily replace them?

If that question makes you uncomfortable — good.

That discomfort is a signal.

Most restaurants are built on accidental loyalty, not intentional systems.

A real marketing plan answers questions like:

Why should someone return within 30 days?

What experience do they talk about afterward?

How do you turn a great meal into a habit?

That’s not a promotion problem.

That’s a strategy problem.

And strategy is fixable.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Customer Retention isn’t a tactic.

It’s a design decision.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Most restaurants don’t need more customers.

They need better systems that keep the right ones coming back.

That’s why I now focus only on restaurant marketing, with customer retention at the center.

Owned them. Worked in them. Fixed them.

https://t.co/2I2mZMHFJx

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

If you care about your industry and your livelihood and not getting it up the butt, you will retweet this. You will retweet this! That is my ask and I don’t ask much, I try to give much!!

Open Letter to Dynadot Leadership
(By Rick Schwartz, The Domain King 👑)

To the executives at @Dynadot

You’ve now had over 36 hours to respond.
You’ve watched this issue spread across the entire industry.
You’ve seen the outrage, the proof, and the damage.
And you’ve chosen silence.

That silence is no longer neutral it’s an admission.

Your current policy lets fraudulent bidders distort auctions,
inflate prices, default without consequence, and then forces the legitimate bidder to pay the inflated amount while @Dynadot keeps the defaulter’s deposit.

You profit twice from the same fraud.
No serious marketplace can call that “policy.”

Here’s what needs to happen, NOW:

1. Publicly acknowledge that the current process is broken.
2. Refund or credit every bidder affected by inflated phantom bids.
3. Immediately change the policy so that defaulted auctions are
offered directly to the next legitimate bidder not re-auctioned.
4. Appoint an independent audit to restore trust.

You could have fixed this quietly.
You could have stood for transparency.
Instead, you stood for profit.

The domain community is united now, and we’re not going back to sleep.
We built this industry not you.

The longer you wait, the louder this gets.
Fix it, before you lose the trust you’ll never buy back.

Rick Schwartz
The Domain King®

#Dynadot #AuctionFraud #DomainNames #Transparency #Accountability

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Here is the actual email that I sent to @dynatodd the CEO of @dynadot this morning at 7:46am PLEASE RETWEET!

I tried to handle this quietly and professionally. But what’s happening at @Dynadot affects everyone in the domain industry.

Their current auction policy rewards fake bidders and punishes real ones.

I’m making my letter public so no one else gets burned.

Hi Todd,

I’m writing to you personally because I don’t want this to turn into a public spectacle. I’ve always tried to do business in good faith, and I’ve supported Dynadot for years. But the policy I’ve encountered here can destroy the very trust that keeps your company alive.

In the auction for https://t.co/dIu9KeWYq4, a bidder failed to pay. That means every bid that person made was invalid from the moment they clicked the button. Yet under Dynadot’s current policy, I’m being asked to pay the inflated price created by those fake bids.

To put this in perspective, imagine a real estate auction where a home is bid up to $3.5 million and later it’s discovered that every bid above $1.5 million was phony. No auctioneer on earth would expect the legitimate bidder to pay $3.5 million. They’d be out of business before the crowd left the room.

This is no different. You’re asking real bidders to pay against ghosts, while the platform still profits from the forfeited deposit of the bidder who never paid. It’s a double win for Dynadot and a breach of trust for everyone else. Even the appearance of that conflict of interest is poison to an auction business.

If I said I was angry, it would be an understatement. Livid would be closer to the truth. 

I was actually on a yacht that I chartered to be with some of the most influential domain investors in the industry when I heard the news and they heard and saw my reaction firsthand. Ask them. I hit the ceiling!!

Worse: this policy protects no one but the fakers, the fake bids and all the abuse that goes with them. That will be devastating.

Our industry isn’t huge, Todd. It’s small, tight, and built on reputation. The moment people realize this policy exists, they’ll lose confidence not just in this one auction, but in your entire system just like I did when I first learned of it. It’s a dealbreaker. It’s a trust breaker. It’s an ethics breaker. And it’s the kind of thing that can break a company.

I’ve written a detailed public post explaining the situation not to attack you or Dynadot, but to explain how devastating this policy could be for Dynadot and for everyone who depends on you. I’d prefer not to share it. But if this can’t be resolved, I’ll have no choice but to make the issue public so that others can protect themselves.

I’d rather see Dynadot do the right thing: revert this sale to the last legitimate bid, acknowledge the problem, and fix the policy going forward. You’ll earn more trust in one day than any marketing campaign could buy.

Without those steps, tell me how is it possible to ever trust your platform again? How could I ever use Dynadot again? How could I ever recommend Dynafot again without explaining the unsavory policy that comes with it?

Doing the right thing helps everyone. Your customers, your brand, and your future. Doing the wrong thing helps no one, not even in the short term, and the consequences are unknown.

Thank you for your time, Todd. I truly hope you understand how serious and important this is.

Best,
Rick Schwartz

#Domains #DomainNames #Auctions #DomainKing

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

I fall into the expander category. The amount of time I save by using AI smartly allows me to take on more clients which in turn increases my income at least threefold.
That is only my for my freelance work, doesn't take into play a few side projects that I now have time for. Exciting times!

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

It's really pretty amazing that with all of the changes and innovations over the years that domain names and what makes a good domain name, have remained constant.

The ad for Gateway Computers is a perfect example of the changes. Weren't they the ones who used cows in their marketing? Probably half the people in here have never heard of them.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

A little basic UX Research could have saved $700 million and a lot of negative publicity.

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

95 Year old Cracker Barrel co-founder Tommy Lowe understands UX Research. He recently criticized CEO Julie Felss Masino for her lack of understanding their customers. ⬇️

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

He added this about the Board of Directors: "I doubt that they've ever been in a Cracker Barrel kitchen or have an idea of what their clientele is,"

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

"She knows very little about Cracker Barrel's operation — the history, the food. The idea she's come up with … doesn't fit the customer. If she'd go out and sit on the front porch and talk to all the customers that come in there, she'd have a little bit of a different outlook."

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

If you built BettyAI as a custom GPT and did not include any information about the assignation in your training files that may be the answer.

I asked the following directly in ChatGPT and got the following response:

Hey ChatGPT! Could you give me the top five facts about the assignation of Charlie Kirk?

ChatGPT said:
Here are five key facts about the assassination (often called the “assignation”) of Charlie Kirk, based on available reports and investigations (as of now):

Date, location, and method
Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on September 10, 2025, while speaking at an outdoor event on the Utah Valley University (UVU) campus in Orem, Utah. PBS+3Wikipedia+3CBS News+3 According to public sources, the shooter used a high-powered rifle from a rooftop vantage point—i.e. a sniper-style attack. PBS+4Wikipedia+4PBS+4

Suspect and charges
The man accused of killing Kirk is Tyler James Robinson, age 22. PBS+4Wikipedia+4CBS News+4 He has been charged with multiple counts including aggravated murder, firearm discharge causing serious injury, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and violent offense in the presence of a child. AP News+4Wikipedia+4CBS News+4 Utah prosecutors have indicated they intend to pursue the death penalty. PBS+4Reuters+4Wikipedia+4

Evidence & confession elements
Investigators say that Robinson confessed in text messages (or online messages) stating that he planned the attack, and he discussed disposing of evidence. AP News+4Wikipedia+4CBS News+4 DNA evidence supposedly matched Robinson to a towel wrapped around the rifle and to a screwdriver found on the rooftop.

Wikipedia+2CBS News+2 Some recovered messages read:
“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. it was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this. im [sic] surrendering … thanks for all the good times and laughs.” Wikipedia
Potential motive & ideological context
The motive is still being investigated, but authorities and public officials have suggested ideological or political radicalization as a factor.

AP News+7PBS+7Wikipedia+7 Some reports state that Robinson had drifted politically over the prior year, adopting views more sympathetic to left-leaning or pro-LGBTQ+ positions (in contrast to more conservative family background). AP News+5Wikipedia+5PBS+5 Bullet casings allegedly bore inscriptions (e.g. “Hey fascist, catch”) that fueled speculation about symbolic messaging behind the act. People.com+1 However, those inscriptions and their significance remain subject to verification. AP News+1

Security gaps & aftermath
In retrospect, investigators and media have pointed out significant security vulnerabilities at the event and on campus: limited law enforcement presence, no bag checks or metal detectors, absence of rooftop surveillance or use of drones, and weak coordination with local authorities. CBS News+3AP News+3PBS+3 The assassination sparked massive debates over political violence, free speech on campus, and misinformation. AP News+6PBS+6AP News+6 Also, a wave of misinformation and conspiracy theories immediately followed, complicating public understanding of the facts. CBS News+3AP News+3The Bulwark+3
If you like, I can also provide a more detailed timeline, profile of the suspect, or the major controversies and uncertainties remaining. Would you like me to dig deeper?

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

@DomainKing I love and use ChatGPT as much as you do but today we are hitting a rocky patch in our relationship. It doesn't want to cooperate at all. I guess we all have those days.😎

[Greg Greenamyer @GregGreenamyer]

Hearing there may be security issues when sharing Google Gem's.

Visitors may have access to your instruction's and knowledge base.

Anyone know if this is correct.