I feel you spreadsheeters… the holidays are over, you just received your amex bill (ouch), Coakley lost, it is freezing outside, chances are your team is not in the Super Bowl, golf is not going to be the same without Tiger (for better or worse), you really need a cleanse because Saturdays and Sundays should not be so difficult, and how much does it suck when your boss catches you working on your Super Bowl Pool in the office?
Have no fear… Things are looking up! Each day we are closer to some warm weather, you have enough amex points to treat yourself to something special, in 8 days all of our football teams will be undefeated, 24 is back on, March Madness is around the corner, it doesn’t matter what grooves you have on your lob wedge, ice dancing in the winter Olympics is shockingly watchable, and Excel Rain Man has a FREE Super Bowl Matrix that makes it look like you are doing some intense work-related spreadsheeting (as opposed to playing Ping Pong in the office, which is pretty tough to disguise).
This is way better than any Super Bowl Pool template you have seen before:
– It eliminates the chicken scratch handwriting from the pool manager and entrants
– It can be easily printed and/or emailed to your crew
– You can enter in the quarterly scores during the Super Bowl and the winners names will automatically be populated in the spreadsheet… now that’s transparency!
– While your hater bosses may have banned facebook, CBS Sportsline, ESPN, … in the cubicle, they will never outlaw spreadsheets! They’ll never know you aren’t crunching whatever it is people crunch?!?
– It looks like you paid a ton for this tricked out spreadsheet when really you got it for FREE!!!
– So go ahead, show off how smart and cool you are… We won’t tell that you didn’t come up with this awesome spreadsheet on your own (although there is a small Excel Rain Man plug in the header and footer… Oops!)
For more information on the Super Bowl Matrix pool, see the section below.
The FREE Excel Rain Man 2010 Super Bowl Matrix can be found in the Tips & Tricks section of www.ExcelRainMan.com.
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1. Super Bowl Matrix
OK folks, with the Holiday’s behind us and the Super Bowl quickly approaching, many of us have been left asking a few questions…
1. “What’s the best way to start saving up for an iPad?”
2. “How could my husband’s fantasy football team lose to a team named ‘The Fertile Murtles’, and in doing so, eliminate any hope of making the playoffs?? … along with his masculinity… and my vacation fund.”
3. “Isn’t gambling more of an investment than a waste of money? AND if so, how can I ‘invest’ some of my hard-earned money on a random lottery-type pool based arbitrarily on Super Bowl scores?”
The answer to these questions is pretty simple… The Excel Rain Team is back again, playing the role of “Enabler” for all of you JV Sports Gamblers, with a FREE Super Bowl Matrix (i.e. Super Bowl Box Pool).
At the end of the day, who doesn’t want a tablet super-computer regardless of its weak name? And who isn’t still tending to a few Fantasy Football wounds? Time to “get back on that horse” (or “fall off that horse” depending on your point of view)… it’s bettin’ time!
The Excel Rain Man Super Bowl Matrix is a simple spreadsheet that allows pretty much anyone to manage his or her very own Box Pool.
To learn more or to download the Super Bowl Matrix for FREE, visit the Tips & Tricks section at ExcelRainMan.com. It should have been the Steelers…
Don’t forget to check out our other tips, tricks and goodies as well!
2. Small Biz Spotlight
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While Swiss Commerce has the expertise to service large clients, they love themselves some small business! Swiss Commerce’s expertise and understanding of how to create and manage a website on a small business budget has enabled our website to grow along with our company at a rate that is affordable!
To this day I still go to Kam and Swiss Commerce regularly with thoughts and questions regarding our site, and they turn my crazy ideas into a reality. Love that!
P.S. Our Press Release scroll at the bottom of our Home Page was his idea. I sent him samples of what I wanted and he gave me something better!
So for you dreamers and entrepreneurs who want to start a business in 2010… make it happen and get in touch with Swiss Commerce ASAP! If you mention that you are a friend of Excel Rain Man, Kam will hook you up with the following:
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Until next time,
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The Excel Rain Diva 🙂