Archive for the 'Sound Off' Category

Happy Magna Carta day!
Free Markets depend upon the government to punish wrongdoers (thieves) but also presume that the government is not the chief theif.
This presumption reaches back in the history of the West but crystalizes at certain points such as today with the issuance of the Magna Carta… a limitation on the king’s power to rob, loot, and pillage. The outrages addressed […]

I got spammed by a small timer today.
They sent an email from yahoo with a yahoo unsubscribe address… I mostly don’t trust these people to honor the unsubscribe since they’re spammers anyway.
So I looked at the html and noticed one of those “url shortening services”.
I clicked through to a landing page at freehostia.com
At the bottom of […]

Here’s a common internet marketing error you can see at Craigslist today.
They did the RIGHT THING by putting this under SERVICES since this is NOT a job and violates the TOS of Craigslist Jobs boards.
I’m reproducing the ad here so you can test yourself.
What’s the mistake? (I made the picture much smaller because of blog […]

Tuesday night I’ll be at a meeting of a company seeking to open in my rural town.
They’re a national company doing medical transcription.
Due to contract obligations, the transcription must be done “in house”… no home based transcription.
I was asked if this would be a problem for people who normally want to work at home.
“No…”
Here if […]

Anyone who runs a double opt in ezine knows that no matter what they do, some idiot - usually from AOL - who is too lazy to click unsubscribe will report you for sending spam even though they signed up for your ezine.
I hate been accused of sending unsolicited mail when I know that I […]

This ad appeared in Nashville, TN when I saw it.
To find out more about this “Guerrila” Marketing company I typed in the email to respond to and for the first few pages only came up with other Craigslist ads when I did a Google search.
It’s as if this company wants bandit signs posted all over […]

If you - or any other private business - ran the State Lottery…
1. You’d be jailed for saying that someone who wins $1 million per year for 20 years won “$20 Million”.
That’s because the “time value of money” is involved.
$20 Million dollars won at a single point in time, because of interest earnings would […]

The Doty family had to move because an out of control bureaucracy penalizes families for teaching their children a legitimate family business.
Read about the Doty family’s struggles here at their website: http://www.familiesthatwork.org/

Yesterday’s article on investments got me thinking … what actually would you invest in?
I’m dubious of Wall Street. After Enron, who can believe the books to really “run the numbers”?
Today’s issue of Early To Rise talked about people who roll over retirement funds and invest in real estate… in this case a Post […]

Maybe nothing’s wrong with it. Time will tell. I’d like to see if you noticed what’s missing.
This is a real company rolling out a real service but I won’t divulge the names since they’re not active yet.
They consider themselves “Carmax” without the lots.
They’ll have an internet website that sells used cars bought at auction.
They’ll be […]