Talk about a topic that lends itself to all kinds of cheesy post titles! The company behind those change machines, Coinstar, has partnered with Starbucks to begin converting change into Starbucks cards in lieu of cash. This is a very clever idea. While I am always someone who would take […]

Just discovered a great website called OneLook which is described as “a search engine for words and phrases.” Search for definitions, translations, patterns and even download a utility that allows searching from any web page using the right-click menu in Internet Explorer. Very cool and useful site.

In reading the July/August 2004 issue of Men’s Health magazine (page 74) this weekend, I came across a brief interview with Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer Company and its famous Samuel Adams beer. The topic of the interview was business risk-taking and one of Mr. Koch’s six tips was […]

Jennifer at What’s Your Brand Mantra links to a CIO Insight column that offers four steps to successful corporate growth and she adds an important fifth step. Here is my summary of the five steps: Be clear on what your company’s purpose is, and on what it wants to accomplish […]

This has nothing to do with anything important, but one of the referring links in this blog’s visitor stats this morning came from a search engine query on the words wife analyzer. I guess I’m proud to say that this post of mine holds the #1 spot, but what I’m […]

I like the early looks of this new blog by Mark Askey. He bills it as a retail sales blog, but I think his points certainly translate to other aspects of sales, team management and the customer experience. Check it out. Just Looking

Nice article in The Business Journal reviewing many marketing basics. It’s 30,000′ stuff, but good to review from time to time just to be sure you’re not skipping over something elementary, but important.

I had an interesting conversation with a coworker this morning about ways to differentiate oneself during presentations by not giving the same old text-heavy PowerPoint presentation that most people fall back on. What we started wondering was, what would one do if they were told no PowerPoint was allowed in […]

If you or your clients market to Generation Y, a blog called Ypulse will no doubt be a valuable source of information. Check it out. via Micro Persuasion

Hotmail has now jumped on the mega-storage bandwagon, lead by GMail (1 GB free) and followed by Yahoo! Email (100 MB free), and is offering 250 MB of storage to its free email users (and matching the Yahoo! offering of 2 GB for $20/month). However, Hotmail and Yahoo! Email’s free […]