Archive for the 'Sound Off' Category

Here’s an email I received from a retailer selling through Cafepress. I’ll let you read the letter but then I’ll add my comments. Is what they’re doing a good or bad thing for the retailer?
In June 2009, CafePress began competing with the artists for whom it acts as printer and shipper.
CafePress rents web shops to [...]

There may be a big market if you want to sell satellite TV.
We’re fairly savvy, but for some reason the audio is messed up now. The setting that formerly blasted us out of the house now sounds like a whisper!
But I have to admit, the digital signal is quite good here.
So how’s your digital switchover [...]

You don’t think of CNBC as a place where there’s any critique of big government at all. But something amazing happened the other day and it’s been circling the blogosphere and even the mainstream media to some extent.
You can see the video rant here by Rick Santelli
Traders on the floor actually stopped what they were [...]

I twittered that I as having fun on Facebook… Every time an ad popped up offering to send me a “Stimulus Check” from Obama, I would give it a thumbs down and mark it offensive.
There’s just one problem though, Facebook doesn’t seem to actually give a rip because, if they did, why do I keep [...]

Google’s so messed up today it’s unbelievable.
Actually it just shows that the pointy heads at Google can have foul ups like everyone else except when it happens there, it’s on a catastrophic scale. Or at least a big mess up.
Today the search results were messed up for a time. Every site listed was flagged [...]

I just got this email from one of the “Gurus” with the headline “How to make money in Social Media”.
I didn’t bother to open the email because literally within the last 10 days this same “Guru” send out a letter saying like “OK I’m on Twitter and Facebook now, so please connect with me online.”
I [...]

Steve Forbes is out pushing (I was going to use another “p” word to more precisely define the type of business activity going on here, but I want to keep the blog family friendly) the bogus bailout.
The economy is in “Cardiac Arrest” he says… we need to take emergency measures and THEN [...]

Most entrepreneurs and work at home types just want a fair shake to make a living for themselves.
They don’t want to government to give them anything… they just don’t want to be hassled.
So they hate it when they hear about people who are supposedly “icons” of “capitalism” turn out to be socialist welfare state suck [...]

Does a business opportunities “Success Rate” determine if the idea or information you’re selling has intrinsic merit?
Having been around the business opportunity field as a purchaser, entrepreneur, and writer for a long time, I would have to say… no.
This doesn’t seem like it makes sense at first.
After all, good ideas should produce good results.
And if bad results [...]

I’ve got the feeling I’m going to be a little brain dead this week so for some reason this caught my eye.
How many people bemoan that they can’t get a job, they can get ahead, they can’t do this or that.
It’s everybody else’s fault of course…or fate…or the position of the stars… or the devil. [...]