Archive for March 10th, 2008

  • How Much Choice Do Consumers Want?

    I met a doctor practicing in the US in Philadelphia. He’d emigrated from a Middle Eastern country to practice in the US. I forget the country. Upon arriving in the US he was constantly overwhelmed with choices about everything in every category. In some ways it was distracting and disorienting to him. We tend to [...]

  • Watch Those Marketing Headlines

    I like ListDotCom.com and use it to test products. Another way I test is to read the headlines that come into my email box. One just came in that said “Forget Everything You’ve Heard…” So I forgot how to open the email. Really, cynical reactions are what we’re battling online. We must try to get [...]

  • Do You Really Want To Start That Wedding Business?

    The “Wedding Business” is big business. In the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge area of Tennessee (Sevier County) there is a special exemption in state laws that apply to the rest of the state just to accommodate the tourist trade there for weddings. Weddings are joyous events and people sink thousands of dollars into the preparations. Accordingly many [...]

  • eBid Online Auctions Booming After Ebay Price Increases

    This is a sponsored post. Ebay’s fee increases have caused online sellers to start reviewing their auctions. You can read about that at this MSN MoneyCentral article for example. This is becoming a common event as Ebay grows and wants to keep increasing their revenues while auction sellers see their profits plummeting. One solution sellers [...]

  • Economy Slows, Franchises Boom

    My wife and I were out with her parents on Saturday night at an oriental restaurant that is usually busy, but the other night it was absolutely CRAZY! My mother-in-law noted “No recession in sight here!” And, that night, at least, there was a mass of happy diners! But whether the economy in general is [...]

  • Family Farm – Daylight Savings Time Is Hard on the Cows

    I really didn’t believe this when I saw it because I wasn’t under the impression the cows had to adjust to Daylight Savings Time… but now that the farmers are milking earlier, they don’t like adjusting to the farmers much. I guess cows like sleeping in too… “From our standpoint, it gives us an extra [...]

  • Don’t Drink The Water!

    No, not in a strange foreign country with impure wells… right here in the USA! It has little to do with how to work at home but this does effect how you feel. Perhaps you’d have the motivation and strength to work at home or in self employment if they water you were drinking weren’t [...]