Archive for the 'Fun' Category

Now here’s an idea for a business – I saw the picture on Facebook. Sounds like a great marketing approach for getting “daytime” business instead of just the normal crowd after hours… especially if you live somewhere with a fairly large retirement or family vacation population!

If you’re like many work at home people… you LOVE having “cloud storage”. That means you can access your data from ANYWHERE … from your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. It’s SO convenient and usually much more secure. Like me, you probably hate PAYING FOR IT! Drop Box is one of the leading cloud storage [...]

It may be deceptive marketing… or maybe it just focused on what the phone did REALLY well… apps. But it is funny…

As far as business gifts go, I rate gift baskets as an excellent type of gift to give. Here are my top 5 reasons: 1. It let’s you show your appreciation to more than one person. Though you work with one person, there are likely support staff who can make your life miserable or make [...]

Dane has listed another selection of the many offers available on fiverr.com It’s a new web site that allows users to buy and sell services and products. Everything is $5. What would you do for $5? Here are some new offers I thought were interesting. Photo by fiverr.com. Read more: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2010/06/04/more-friday-for-five-dollars/#ixzz0puii9cHE

Look back at the past holiday giving season, if I’d thought about it, I’d have given the following gifts. To my friend Bob who is an amateur hockey fan and who regularly takes up the stick to play goalie with his pals in Nashville (who knew amateurs played hockey in Nashville, TN?) I should have [...]

Here’s Dilbert’s Sunday comic strip for Dec 27th. When all else fails, grow a beard and go to work in a big corporation  or the government and get your bluff in early! Failing that, get my information by email on How to get started online!

Here’s a neat example of a company using the Holiday to promote their core service by offering a freebie to the customer. Since the Post Office doesn’t seem to want to handle “letters to Santa” this company has set up a direct phone hotline for your tot to have a conference call with Santa! Of [...]

Employee Engagement is a strategy enlightened companies pursue to cultivate and harness the inner drive of their employees for the common welfare of the company. Here, Dilbert’s management deftly seeks to apply these insights to his own company’s success! Yeah, this is about how it works…

I’ve been thinking about this a good deal since I just destroyed my last credit card after paying off the account. My first thought was… “will I ever go on vacation again?” And panic gripped me. Yes, I’ll be going on vacation again, just not paying it off over the next 20 years. So my [...]