Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Positivity Blog discusses a handful of Mr. Penney's most positive and energizing quotes.
“We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
“It is the service we ...
Posted in Success, Motivation | No Comments »
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
"Suck up early and often," goes the saying in corporate life - but is it really all that effective? Guy Kawasaki throws in his two cents with a series of suggestions which, while not completely servile, are still unctuous enough the be annoying. (For instance, Guy is not clear on ...
Posted in Communication | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
At the top left is a link labelled "All Items" followed by the number of unread posts you have. It's right under the "Home" link. Click it. Then click the "Mark all as read" button at the center of the page. Click OK when your browser prompts you if you ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Imagine the horror - the horror! - of finding out that Barack Obama isn't saving his pennies for retirement. Why on earth not? Mankiw has a depressing possible explanation:
As Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee has written, "Future increases in tax rates potentially threaten to significantly reduce the ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Another great post from Scott the Nametag Guy. His secret sauce? Start creating great content, which will attract customers. Repeat until rich.
Posted in Blogging | No Comments »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Microsoft's new bizarre revenue model? Behave like a petulant four-year-old. "He's touching me! He's touching me!"
Uh, guys? We hate your stuff. With a passion. Why on earth would we steal it?
Posted in Microsoft | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Yesterday I spent several hours creating a SharePoint Datasheet page that I could have created in ten minutes in a Wiki or a CMS. As if this wasn't annoying enough, this morning I read how SharePoint is earning Microsoft a ton of money. How irritating.
Posted in Microsoft, CMS | No Comments »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Here's the press release. Good job, guys!
Posted in Cart Vendors | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Photo credit: New York Times.
Posted in Marketing | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Last Christmas, the first price bracket at Neiman's for search by price was $0-$30,000. Seems like a reasonable range. :)
It seems now they've dumped search by price and started using IBM's OmniFind offering, which is branded iphrase powered.
Posted in Pricing | 1 Comment »
