Author: Jeff

How’s This For Return On Investment?

Most of our gaffers tape customers use gaffers tape for securing cables to the floor. The keep people from tripping over wires when its necessary to run cables across a stage or in an area where there is lots of

How the Mighty Have Fallen

After holding the #1 postion in google search for the term “gaffers tape” for several years, we fell to #2 behind wikipedia and then, last week, we slipped to #3. We spend lots of time optimizing our web pages for

The Law of Unintended Consequences

I’m not a chemist (don’t even play one on tv), but a phone call from a prospective customer yesterday had me thinking about how little attention I paid in high school chemistry. The stage manager for a well known Chicago

Just How Smart Is An “Intelligent Microphone Cable”?

My son and one of his friends have started podcasting. They record audio only to a digital camcorder and then transfer it to his computer for uploading. This works pretty well and I applaud him for coming up with a

Is More Better?

We’re ready to roll out a new domain, and my task is to create new content to support this domain. We want to both make it more useful to our customers and appealing to search engines. While I enjoy the

Have They Added A “May Fools Day”

No sooner had I written about being taken in on an April Fools hoax for a “wireless extension cord” than I come across this. The article was about a product that can wirelessly transmit power for recharging to any device

Does April Fools Day Last All Month?

It may be the last day of April, but I just fell for a great April Fools Joke. It started when I googled “extension cord” to see how we were doing with that search engine. Much to my surprise, one

Shurtape Drops The Other Shoe

If you check by here periodically, you may remember that I wrote about a change in Permacel 665 back in February. The focus of my post was about how pricing on Permacel 665 gaffers tape was out of sync with

Monster Takes A Chainsaw To The Lowly Outlet Strip

You can file this device under “wish I’d thought of it first“. Monster Cable, the company known for its high end (and high priced) audio cable has released their “Outlets To Go Power Strip“, a stripped down, light weight version

A Tip of The Hat To Heil

The online newsletter from Pro Sound News is a great source of news for the pro audio industry. It is avialble through a an online subscripton and there is always an item I find interesting. Heil Sound, a company that

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