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Here’s what 2010 means to us:

• Bringing the freshest ish
• Bringing the newest ish
• The insider scoop on the latest projects from our friends: Radiant Amar, Will.I.Am, John Forté, Jehane Noujaim, Yoko Ono, and a few hot starlets up our sleeves. Keep your eyes on lock right here!
• Unveiling the new music video “In My Head” by Jason Derulo, which our friend Frank Ahn helped shoot on location in LA over the holidays. Have you heard Jason’s smash hit, Whatcha Say?!
• Expanded hours
• Saving the day, 1 delivery at a time
• Freeing up your time, 1 hour at a time

TWENTYTEN, LET’S GET IT! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

from Adrants

Anybody else tired of Christmas songs? They sound like the Winter Blues by now.

So our friends at Adrants helped us get back in the mood – with a Durex commercial. Just in time for New Year’s Eve. The video portion is safe for watching at work, but the audio portion should be called “Siren Night”. Remember, one of our bestsellers is – yes, indeed – 48 count condoms. Delivered in under 1 hour.

‘Cause fast is the only way we know how to roll.

Xmas is over. Time to refocus on you. Let the hotness begin. Self-indulgence++

We’re serving up all this hotness in 1 hour. Just click on the pretty pics to get em.

1. kidrobot’s Smorkin’ Labbit in Bronze

Ooh, a bad little rabbit. Smorkin’ Labbit.

2. kidrobot’s Smorkin’ Labbit in Silver

So okay, we love Smorkin’ Labbit in Bronze so much that we had to feature it in Silver too. Since there’s no Platinum.

3. kidrobot’s Smorkin’ Labbit in White

Okay okay, we saved the best Smorkin’ Labbit for last. The white one. Follow the White Labbit and get it here.

4. Moleskine Plain Notebook – Pocket Size

Mmm buttery. It’s just whispering for you to write secret notes in it. Or poetry that floats across its pages.

5. Breaking Dawn (Hardback)

Hardback is just a better experience than paperback. Read it before the movie version is tragically spliced into 2 movies.

Are we missing your fave item? Is it too hot to handle? Want us to carry it? Comment below and let us know.

Oh Snap! Team HeroEx has some real life rockstars. Download this dope song by The Frail, with lead vocals by our very own Daniel Lannon. Hero by day, rockstar by night! (You should see him rock the stage in concert – and check out The Frail on MySpace).

Irvine on Christmas. Get it now!

The Frail is also rockin out NYE this year! Let us know and we’ll cop you a friends and family discount.

Time is all we have. Wasting time damages your health and your quality of life. I’ve reorganized my life around being more efficient with my time, which includes these mantras:

1. YOU ARE A QUEEN, OR KING — OR HERO.

So assume the role. Delegate what you need to. Your job is to say, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” or “YOU’RE FIRED!” or “UP UP AND AWAY!”. How are you supposed to save the day otherwise?

2. IGNORE HATERS

Stalkers, Trolls, and people who don’t believe in you don’t deserve your attention. CUT them out, have your PR person manage them, CROWDSOURCE a team to shut them down, or PAY them to write more reviews of you. (All of these worked for me.)

3. MANAGE EXPECTATIONS

Avoid misunderstandings and complications – Set expectations for how you spend your time with people. Time-manage Mom and Dad by telling them to check your Twitter.

4. CRITICAL PATH

Choose your friends and eliminate the things that don’t matter.

5. GO DIAGONAL

I once learned in 7th grade geometry class that going on a diagonal path is faster than going 5 blocks up then 5 blocks across. So learn the shortcuts through the streets. Now that we have Google Maps, it’s even easier.

THIS:

NOT THIS:

6. ASK YOUR ASSISTANT

Hire an assistant. And get HeroEx to do your deliveries on the cheap

7. FIND THE REAL EXPERTS

Need an expert? If you want to find an expert on social media, for example, there are 15,740 of them on Twitter. Pick 1 or 2 people at the top of the food chain you need to talk to now, and go for the bullseye. Or if I wanted to talk to an expert on Ecommerce, I’d ask HeroEx advisor Jeff Holden, who ran the consumer side of Amazon.com for 9 years.

8. WATCH YOURSELF

“Shake ya ass, but watch yourself. Shake ya ass, show me what you workin with!” – Mystikal

Know yourself and the things you do that waste time. Now turn them off, shut them down, get rid of them. You know yourself best.

9. DAILY MEDITATION

I  meditate daily at SCLA – even for just 1 minute. 60 seconds of Ommmmm on a regular basis helps me focus on what’s important (and get to the critical path I mentioned above). I was inspired to do this by one of my best friends and Russell Simmons.

10. MONEY WINS

Can’t decide which one to pick, and all things are equal? Pick the one which brings in the cashflow for you, your boss, your company, your nonprofit, your family, your customers. We all work for the President – $ George Washington $.

BONUS

11. MINIMIZE INTERRUPTIONS IN YOUR DAY

Every time you get up to pick up groceries, to go out for lunch or dinner, to pick up office supplies, to grab Starbucks – you interrupt your normal workflow. It takes 20 minutes to readjust back to what you were doing before you got up. So plan your day to minimize this – or do it all at once.

"IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT BEYONCE HAS ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME!" - Kanye West

Need help getting more done, so you don’t interrupt your day? Ask us at HeroEx – we’ll come to the rescue and deliver almost anything you want in 1 hour

Just before we hit 2010, Violet Blue (San Francisco Chronicle) released her top 10 sexy geeks 2010.

She describes our CEO Marissa as “firey, effervescent, and gorgeous.”

Check it out here! The news was also picked up by Laughing Squid, Aston Martin News, Serpica Naro, and others.

Keep watching as Marissa stirs up controversy, conversation, music videos, and a media storm in 2010!

For some of us, Christmas consisted of kissing under the mistletoe, drinking spiked eggnog, and getting presents which would probably sit around and collect dust.

Did Santa give you something you didn’t want for Christmas? Even if you were a bad kid this year and deserved the bad present:

HeroEx will help you return it if you have the gift receipt.

Through January 5th 2010, we will help you return your Christmas gifts if you’ve kept the gift receipt, and if the store gives cashback on returns. Or if the store has an exchange-only policy and you know what you’d like to exchange your gift for, we can handle that too. We will make sure to reconcile the difference between the price of the old item and the new item.

We’re doing gift returns for just $12 – that’s the same price as our 1 hour custom deliveries.

All you need to do is order as if you were requesting a custom delivery, and make sure to tell us if you have your gift receipt – just go here.

(Our PR goddess, Marivic Valencia, gave her 4 year old daughter a Husky puppy for Christmas - this is one of the few Christmas gifts we can't return )

BOOM, here it is. The alpha version of HeroEx (short for Hero Express), just in time for Christmas.

HeroEx is crowdsourced local express delivery. Think: FedEx meets Amazon Mechanical Turk.

You can buy almost anything you like and we will deliver it in under 1 hour. Right now, delivery prices are $9-12. The first test market we are making this available in is San Francisco.

If you buy things online but hate waiting for days to receive them, you’re going to really like what we have in store. If you think FedEx, UPS, and USPS are way too slow, you’re right – and you shouldn’t have to put up with it.

At HeroEx, you buy items from our storefront at the price you would normally pay, plus a small fee for delivery. We’re able to keep delivery costs low because we source Delivery Heroes from the community, and we have no warehouses. Jack in the Box says, “We don’t make it til you order it,” but HeroEx says, “We don’t buy it til you order it.”

Here’s what some of our friends are saying about HeroEx:

“Weirdly neat idea!” -Philip Kaplan, Founder of Blippy, AdBrite, and Fuckedcompany

“We were just sitting in a meeting and the batteries for our wireless keyboard ran out.  Who can save us?  HeroEx!” -Lawrence Coburn, CEO of RateItAll

Where do you come in? Help us improve our service by making your first order – choose anything you’d like us to deliver, and tell all your friends about your new secret weapon.

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Marissa Louie, Founder and CEO of HeroEx

marissa@heroex.com