Even though our national economic woes continue to depress holiday retail sales, online sales are expected to grow this year. That’s great news if you, like we, count on internet sales to sustain and grow your business. Still, there is…
Year: 2011
It’s Just Like Slamming The Door In Your Customer’s Face
I have been trying to order some toner cartridges online for about twenty minutes. I am ordering from a company I like, one with good prices and service. If I had not already had a positive experience with them, I…
The End Of “Reseller” Pricing
A daily stop on my internet browsing journey is Seth Godin’s blog. He teaches simple life lessons from a business person’s point of view and he really speaks my language. I recommend him highly. Today Seth’s posting deals with how…
The 20 Amp Extension Cord Mystery
We have a great line of extension cords intended for heavy duty use. They use 12 gauge cable which gives them a 20 amp capacity, but we can’t really call them 20 amp cables because of the connectors that we…
A Tip Of The Hat To Duracell
Duracell, in cooperation with the Firehouse Subs restaurant chain have a national Fire Safety month promotion that will reward customers who buy a $5 medallion at the restaurant with a free Duracell 9 volt battery. October is national fire safety…
Really Friendly Robots
We manage content for lots of blogs, primarily sites that are product specific. They are all built on the Word Press platform. By default, settings for Word Press allow readers to post comments. You can moderate the comments and decide…
“As Seen On The Radio”
I wrote a while back on the subject of how people who produce video in front of live audiences are blind to anything that the camera does not see, regardless of what the audience in the hall might be viewing.…
Are You Sure They’re Really Musicians?
Like many of you, I migrated from performing to being a stage tech at least partly because I realized that most musicians could barely find their way to the gig, and thus there were real opportunities in migrating from playing…
Making The Case For An XLR Speaker Cable
Many years ago when I worked in the Technical Services Dept. at Duke University, we embraced a speaker cable connector standard that seems to have fallen by the wayside. We used the standard XLR3 connector for speaker cables-the same connector that…
Now That’s Some Cool Tape
After being in the tape business for twenty years, it’s not every day that learn something new. When a customer shares a new tip with us, I enjoy passing it along to you. We’ve been working with the US Volleyball Assoc.…
Top