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A Copper Top For My Rag Top
The saddest days of the year for me is the day in the late fall that I decide to put the removable hard top on my car in place of the convertible top. One of my guiltiest pleasures is long … Continue reading
A Job That Comes With A Target On Your Back
As part of their plan to roll out a retail store initiative, Microsoft is hiring away Apple Store employees to run the new Microsoft Stores. These ever loyal Apple employees are apparently jumping at the chance to make a little … Continue reading
Ready To Make Your Own Glow Tape
The idea that the products we sell might someday be generated organically and thus solve the disposable problems that selling expendables cause is exciting. I have written about this in the past. A recent article in the Telegraph highlights the … Continue reading
My Phone Needs Another Button
The ability to make a free (or almost free) phone call by using a computer with a broadband connection is a great innovation. It opens up lots of opportunities for new telcom services and helps keep the big phone companies … Continue reading
This Drummer Is Hot!
So, I’m watching a Metacafe video of the drummer for The Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford) while the site serves ads for “printer drums”, drum heaters” and “ear drum” protection. I realize that keyword driven advertising has a long way … Continue reading
Nobody Likes To Get Old
As part of our new marketing strategy built around goodideaguys.com, I am trying to work on a new social media presence for our business. I have resisted using sites like Facebook and Twitter to date, partly because they can be … Continue reading
This Will Make One Heck Of A Tape Ball
I keep my Google News Alerts set for stories about the manufacturers products we sell. Today I got this one about Shurtape, a tape manufacturer in Hickory, NC. Sun Kwak, a Korean artist, is using over three miles of black … Continue reading
Intelligently Searching For Intelligent Search
I subscribe to a news alert service provided by Forbes Magazine and find that about once a day I will click on a link to one of their business-oriented stories. They are useful and well written. This morning they sent … Continue reading
I Don’t Play Cello But I Could Have Done This
One of the highlights of this week’s inauguration ceremony was the performance of a John Williams piece by a well known classical quartet made up of Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet). It … Continue reading
Circuit City Closing Leads To Customer “Short Circuit”
It’s a long standing business business practice that the “seller sets the terms“. While its true that you can bargain with a vendor if you think they will sell at a lower price, in the end, if you are not … Continue reading