Archive for May, 2008

Bankers in suits are too polite to come break your kneecaps when you get behind on your mortgage payments. So when there’s a mortgage crisis, they outsource the task to those who are more willing.
Actually this type of investing could help both the bank and the homeowner but this “investor” has certainly painted himself […]

From Dane’s Blog
I guess like most parts of the country, all our motels here seem to be run by Patels. What struck me as odd the other day was that one of the recently renovated motels in town had a unique message on it’s bill board. Instead of touting the motel’s “Free High Speed” or […]

If you’ve ever been through Detroit or Cleveland, you’ve seen some of the most devastated urban decay in the United States. The parts that don’t look like war zones aren’t exactly prosperous. Big union towns once, they’re seeing hard times. Been there? You’ve seen some of the worst of urban America. But where some see […]

From Dane’s Blog

The Wall Street Journal:

Lots of employers would like to be able to hire cheap, temporary teams of seasoned pros with experience managing $2 billion investment portfolios, running ad campaigns or earning Ph.D.s in neuroscience.
But few know the secret to finding temps of that caliber: Look on playgrounds and at PTA meetings.
The decision among […]

I was looking for a database program I thought might be good to use.
I ran across this article on a “Year without Windows” (from Linux of course!)
All of our other business functions are covered with Linux. On the desktop, we use Moneydance for accounting. We use Microsoft Word under the CodeWeavers CrossOver Office, and OpenOffice.org […]

I guess being from New England where there are Cranberry Bogs, Marcia has a thing or two to say about another variety of “bog”… the “Blog Bog”.
I understand her point. For most of us, blogs are “stream of consciousness journaling”… Twitter on steroids before there was Twitter.
With Blogger you can put “blocks” of links on […]

Margie Zable Fisher offers good tips on how to do an interview the right way. It strikes me though that these qualities are essential for any interaction with your customers. The interview is just a customer communication by proxy.
How to Screw Up an Interview
Recently one of my clients had an opportunity to be interviewed by […]

Here’s a question I got at my Home Medical Transcription Lens at Squidoo
hi! i found an online course, Its free, it’s called _________________. i was wondering if you have hear of it, i just stated today with the cours. I’m really interrested in becoming a MT. I use to be a pharmacy tech but since […]

If you’re doing “direct response marketing”, one technique you may have heard about is newspaper inserts.
I was talking to a marketer who’s been doing inserts in the insurance field over 20 years. It turned him from underpaid agent into a well to do business man. He basically no longer uses newspaper inserts. Why? Two […]

“Web 2.0″ is “all about” social networking. The received wisdom is that, if you don’t have user generated content, you’re going to be left behind in terms of internet marketing. Possibly…at least until the next thing, whatever that is. But if this is something you’d like to explore, then you’ll be happy to know that […]