Archive for 2008

As I said a while back, Kroger had a plan (however boring) to snap up economic stimulus checks by letting people buy 10% more groceries if they gave Kroger their check up front. Can you say “cash infusion”?
Now that sounded a little boring to me… just 10%? But at least it was a plan.
I thought […]

Do you have the wrong dream for your business? Gary North’s email today made me think about this topic.
Is your dream to operate a business where you have something people “have to have” (or at least think they have to have it), there’s no possible competition and you can charge whatever you want?
The fact that […]

Remember that photo of the tower from the other day?  Nothing’s changed!
I was hoping that the receiver/transponder would  be up and running yesterday afternoon giving us broadband access… then a whole new world of VOIP and SKYPE would open up.
But I’m still waiting.
Can you tell I’m excited?
I wonder if there are entrepreneurs near you who […]

Here’s an excellent post by Pamela Slim from Escape Cubicle Nation on the economic downturn.
The excitement of an economic boom is intoxicating.
I lived and worked in Silicon Valley right in the middle of the “web crack” growth period.  There was a buzz in the air that lifted everyone’s feet a few inches off the ground.  […]

Most small business start up decisions are based on “what’s hot now?” If we’re thinking about long term options though, it might be wise to ask… “What will be around tomorrow too?”
That’s the issue, in part, behind population demograhics.
They used to have a saying … “Find me 10,000 people and I’ll show you 200 willing […]

Mortgage misery: After months of decline, broker ranks seen falling by 80 percent from peak
The Subprime crisis is taking it’s toll. It’s easy to sell mortgages when you don’t have to qualify customers and banks just want to give away money.
With banks slower to lend and finally deciding they better ask for more documentation, the […]

Here is the tower after yesterday’s construction. Still no internet service, but the tower is high enough to reach over the crest of the hills and get a signal from town. (They used a “cherry picker” truck to determine that it would be the right elevation before building it in case you’re wondering…)

Now… will the […]

There’s no shortage of search results on the internet.
But are they reliable?
Can you send your children there to find information for homework without worrying about some predator posting his or her trash on the website?
FindHow.com is a new website aiming to offer reliable search results for “how to” information
According to the About page, the site […]

More photos of what the project looked like before work started yesterday…
That rope pulls the segments of the tower up so a crane isn’t needed.

What segments you ask? Right here…

But it was ready to move forward! It is looking a little better at least.
What will it look like when the construction crew comes back? Who […]

This is part of the saga of work at home people in the boondocks past suburbia.
In particular it’s about my wife needing high speed for her business because the old land line systems for medical transcription are being phased out. So it’s GET SOMETHING fast or lose accounts. And I also need it for […]