Breaking Free of Outlook

I recently moved to a new office and found that I couldn't send mail via Microsoft Outlook. I've had this same problem in different locations ... . This is anecdotal and maybe I am a market of one, but it is a big deal for me. I have “lived ... for business as well. 2. Searching was much easier. There is debate about whether Outlook or Gmail has better [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 08:32:34

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Starving the Competition

I was disappointed but not surprised to read the front page story on the Financial Times today reporting that Russia is planning on forming a new state company to control more than half of grain exports - theoretically allowing the Kremlin an additional diplomatic-business weapon to drive up food prices in selectively [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 14:24:43

WFFOT: Friday Essentials

Latest tracking data from Rasmussen …. 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Little Day of Week Bias in Presidential Tracking Poll McCain Pulls ... Tax Fairness Bush Job Approval Falls Back Another Point BUSINESS 60% of Americans Say Economy is in Recession Rasmussen Employment Index Suggests Labor Market a Little Less Bleak [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 14:32:05

Canadian ‘Do Not Call’ starts in September

p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Bell Canada has been given a government contract at which it should excel ... to run a National DNCL, meant to stop people from being harassed by telephone marketing calls. DNCL ... with an existing business relationship with the organization to business consumers You can also expect major [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 13:35:10

Thoughts from the sky

I’m on UAL 673 from LGA to Chicago right now.  It’s been a little while since I flew one of the old-school U.S. airlines – I’ve favored JetBlue and Virgin America recently - and while it wasn’t a carefully considered decision, now I know why.  A few years ago, I lived on United.  At one point, I had half a million frequent flier miles with them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:23:25

Free Marketing Tips for 2009

Hello Fellow Business Owner, With all the talk about our current economic “crisis” I thought I’d jump in and give you some free marketing advice. 1. Don’t skimp on your marketing! There are several free article and press release submission ... Christmas and Awesome New Year!! __________________ Stephanie Fish Virtual Marketing & Research [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:02:19

LinuxWorld hopes to make mobile news

Next week’s LinuxWorld show in San Francisco will look a lot like last year’s but it hopes to make big ... fields.” So far, she said, the market has not made demands for changes in the format. But Kendall ... or regional conferences possible. The job is to serve the market in whatever form it needs, she [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 13:28:40

Portfolio is a Dog? Diversify Into Cows and Pigs

As we have repeatedly voiced, commodities are in a bull market, but prices will not go straight up ... operators has pushed producers out of the business as well as helped temporarily cause more short-term ... fundamental forces for the market looking forward. Elevated corn prices in June motivated cattle [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 09:12:40

Simple Investor: JD Group a suite deal?

Furniture was the only item in the most recent consumer price index data to show a price decrease over a year of rampant inflation ... a share at the time of writing, looks more beaten up by the bear market. JDGroup 1 Share price less ... market. Lewis, in contrast, passes this test with a P/E of around six, though its price/book is too [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:34:02

Deep Market Thoughts…Death to CNBC

This bear market will likely put an end to some CNBC regulars. When a new bull market emerges (there are hints of potential in Biotech land) ... to have conviction is when you are working with big profits in a strongly trending market and even ... , trim your nosehair or better yet, turn off the TV and start a freaking business because you’re going [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 04:07:19

Starbucks Good Samaritans

Confrontational Marketing — Building Brand Awareness in a Saturated Market Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk So, yesterday I was walking through Penn Quarter at Lunch with my business partner, and right there on E street, we passed a Prius Zipcar. It wasn’t out of the ordinary in any way, other than the fact [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:18:45

Paying it Forward… Must be the Season in Chico

The strangest thing happened to me the other day…   One of the first of many “catch up” things I had to do upon return from my 10 day vacation to ... of… well, folks with no more important business than to gather on the steps of the post office ... for my collection and proceeded into the post office to do my business. It just gets better… So, with my [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:15:02

Talk Shows The New Growth Industry

With NBC’s announcement that Jay Leno will host a five-nights-a-week talk show in prime time once he steps down to be replaced by Conan O’Brien in ... that CBS is expanding his duties to include hosting a daily prime time business news and comedy show called “Will It Float A Loan?” “Dave is always ahead of business trends,” said CBS spokesperson [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:00:18

How to Make Lots of Money During a Recession

A recession is possibly the best time to launch a new business or to expand an existing one. It’s also a great time to get ahead in your career. I know this sounds counter-intuitive, so let me ’splain. First, the media goes nuts during a recession. They turn a little bit of negativity into a mountain of pessimism [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:40:01

A response from the peanut gallery

As I stand on my soap box proclaiming how working with and for Chief Properties is more cost effective for everyone I get various responses from the ... to be competitive and gain a greater market share) as well as an actual commission earning ... We are not in this business to make friends with the competition . We are in it to provide better services [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:07:13

Article Marketing, Who Does It?

by Rob Metras In order to recognize who is an article marketer, we need to come up with a definition of an article marketer first ... are some form of advertising. Vacation Rentals and Time Share Companies are also a great source ... that produces the game, Blizzard, gets free links back to their website and free promotion from fans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:26:54

Slow Economy Can be a Great Time to Buy a Franchise

Here are five reasons to get into franchising now! By Lori Kiser-Block If you believe the national headlines, you would think that all is doom and gloom in the business world: Wall Street Plunges on Recession ... to start a new business. While it may take a bit longer to secure financing in today, a bad economy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 20:32:30

Help Me Out Here, Please

Help Me Out Here, Please I know I’m just a slow witted conservative, with a a bad academic track record (that’s why I went into the military, according to jfk) who clings to my guns and religion because I’m bitter about having a great life, lots of friends,who are people who would do anything for me or anyone else in need, but…I digress [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 15:28:01

SponsorPitch Launches Closed Beta

Among the many people that I finally met in person at the Princeton Sports Symposium after speaking to many times online in the past is Kris Mathis, ... can easily find, filter and evaluate opportunities based around their specific marketing objectives ... for your specific business objectives takes a lot of time and money. That was both the fun and [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:00:41

Breaking News from 2010: Reaching the Bottom of the M&A Revenue Plunge

Colleague Dennis Berman wrote Tuesday about how investment bankers are trying to cope with a business that is disappearing before their eyes ... of 970 middle-market deal makers found that nearly half expect the M&A environment to get worse ... half-yearly survey of middle-market professionals by the Association of Corporate Growth and Thomson [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 14:57:59

Robin Hussein Hood

Wealth redistribution. What a nice Marxist attitude you have there Barack… From BHO’s Emergency Economic Plan (link above): Barack Obama believes that, over the long term, middle class families need permanent tax relief, which is why he has proposed a new “Making Work Pay” tax credit of up to $1,000 for working families [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 16:36:48

Mac Made

As the economics of decline take hold, I’m sure many are looking at their technology spending very closely. I’ve personally been treading water for more than three years as a small business owner ... History My design and layout experience goes back to the early 1980s in the printing business where [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:07:35

Deals of the Day: Will Constellation Energy Reject Warren Buffett?

Deals of the Day, compiled by Stephen Grocer and Heidi Moore, gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, ... gamble by developer Samuel Zell to overhaul a media business he thought was undervalued. WSJ Related ... with a business that is disappearing before their eyes. The current urban myth among bankers: the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:12:19

College versus Pro: The decision is personal

Today is the first day of August.  Fall approaches, but so does the signing deadline for teams to lock up players that were selected in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft.  We are only fourteen days away from knowing which unsigned players will be returning/first going to college and who will forgo the college experience in favor of accepting a bonus [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 14:00:35

What Is The Best Free Anti-Virus Software

Unfortunately all computers that are on a network or the internet will need some form of virus protection software but whether you are in an ... . What is really great about ThreatFire is the minimum differences between their free version and their business ... if opted out of ThreatFire Community Free priority telephone support Commercial and business [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:31:08

What’s So Great About Passive Candidates?

Groucho Marx once said, “I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member.” Some recruiters feel similarly about candidates. They don’t want anyone who shows the least interest in joining an organization like theirs. They reject these applicants out of hand while searching out the true gems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:37:38

What I Would Say to Detroit

Okay, nobody is asking me but I am going to say it anyway: Hey Detroit - Maybe you should stop putting MP3 players, GPS crap, ... tells me that we have a free market and capitalism is our financial system they should burst into flames in a inferno of spontaneous combustion. Part of business in a free market system is risk [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:54:08

Less Income, Less Choosey About Food

As we know, sales of organic foods have not proven recession-proof (previous blog here).  Until recently, this simply meant that growth had slowed. Market research firm NPD Group said the number of people who reported buying organic products ... and cheese, cookies and pasta. "Our business has been getting stronger as the economy is getting weaker [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:17:32

Article Marketing - Myth or Miracle?

Real Beginners starting out on their Internet Marketing career are overwhelmed with information on various marketing techniques, ... , one of the best FREE ways to bring your product or website to the attention of the search engines ... that when publishers search the article directories for content, they will pick on articles [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 18:03:52

Holiday Stock Picks for the Unemployed Banker

Last week’s news that the unemployment rate is soaring wasn’t met with surprise; ... (naked) marketing campaigns…and it’s recession proof!  At least according to its CEO.  ”We hear ... to get more business this Christmas? To be fair, AEO’s approach puts a hurt on its gross margins, which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:19:34

Functioning Inside Other Ecosystems

Lots of people who want to start businesses seem to want to become billion dollar ones and, hey, that’s understandable. Huge is sexy ... about that often. Starting a business inside another business. Think Facebook apps. This isn’t the way to a billion dollar business, but it does work and can probably get you out of a day job. If you’re good [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:30:20

Y Combinator Challenge #10 - Auctions (Celebrity Guest Post!)

Hi, my name is Charles Ju and I’m answering Kevin’s call for help. I am also an unabashed fan of Y Combinator (submitting a plan this year) ... like Craigslist and FB marketplace, it becomes clear that finding a new way to monetize this market ... . There are a couple of benefits to this business model: 1. There is an actual business model. Each user [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 15:00:40

Public Service, Public Servants, and Mass Death

Having read about Obama-care and McCain-care, I can not but be sure that the continued reliance on political institutions and alliances as a viable means to managing healthcare costs and improving healthcare overall is yet only another path to uniting profit, immoral power, and private ambitions with unearned privileges, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 07:43:15

DrumBeat: December 9, 2008

OPEC needs big supply cut to stem oil's slide LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC needs to make a large cut in supplies at a meeting next week, its third reduction since September, to prevent further falls in oil prices as world demand slumps due to slowing economies. The 12-member OPEC should cut output by at least 1 million barrels per day (bpd) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44

Solar and Cash: The Big Boys Have an Answer - Do You?

Solar stocks, for reasons such as global warming, increasing energy constraints, and a plethora of other factors, ... opportunity, as well as significant frustration. A solid understanding of the factors that influence stock ... a rapidly growing business can fulfill its goals without substantial cash and cash flow. Here [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 09:25:31

Professionalism Booster #87

Get out of your feed reader and comment on this post- we PROMISE that the ShamWow guy won\'t pop out when you do.. ... , your competition could send you business. It happens. I know there are others but I am on a deadline here ... and complain a lot - especially now, when the market is slower, when people aren’t as busy writing contracts [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 12:55:28

Research is the Key!

Many website owners create their first site simply because ‘it was a good idea at the time’ ... with little or no thought of search engine optimization. Trying to undo several years’ worth of aimless site building can be a nightmare from a search engine optimization view point. In fact at times [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 16:33:16

Going “Green” will Destroy Detroit

With all of this talk about saving Detroit and bailing out the American manufacturing industry, ... and you will quickly see “green” technology is at the heart of their plan. If this were a strategy submitted a decade ... a million vehicles to green models. In other words, the free market will not allow the industry to grow [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 20:49:00

Plan To Prosper In 7 Simple Steps

Get out of your feed reader and comment on this post- we PROMISE that the ShamWow guy won\'t pop out when you do... Do You Plan To Prosper? ... to be clear about who you want to do business with (your target market). The more specific ... estate business. Obviously, it’s not something to neglect or deal with “as it comes up” [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 22:18:43

Modular Homes: A Great Bargain In A Tight Home Market.

For many years, I worked in the construction business selling new windows and doors to builders and general contractors. It was a great business while it lasted, that is, before the housing bubble burst with a huge ... of what he meant. But after listening to him relate stories of how that portion of the housing business [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:15:17

'Boston Legal': the last dance

'Boston Legal': the last dance 07:02 AM PT, Dec 9 2008 After last’s week’s revelation that Denny Crane’s Alzheimer’s was getting worse, it was hard not to suspect that Monday night’s final finale of “Boston Legal” would wind up with best friend Alan Shore either killing him or kissing him. Instead, they split the difference and got married [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 15:02:33

Jerkoff of the Week - John Thain

Meet John Thain. Does he look like a dick? No? Yes? Because he is. A greedy, selfish dick ... for a simple reason, they just weren't making enough profit to stay in business. Republic has been around ... houses or renovating old ones - and that's where the profit is. Except the housing market went bust here [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 22:12:54

Obama Digs A Hole For The Economy

President-Elect Obama has chosen to embrace some of the worst economic thinking in his recently announced economic recovery plan. The buzzword he’s following is “infrastructure”—and it’s a strategy that is doomed to fail. Reason’s Nick Gillespie sarcastically looks at the plan: When the history of this awful moment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 23:01:15

Phil Fisher on Profit Margins, Part II

As I mentioned in this post, three of Phil Fisher's 15 Points to Look For in a Common Stock are directly related to profit margins. Companies with slim profit margins often feel tough economic or business cycles more vehemently ... . This is usually because of the bipolar nature of Mr. Market. He'll hammer a company's stock price [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 07:51:21

Corning Sees Pressure On LCD Glass Pricing; Mulls Layoffs

Corning (GLW) this morning said the company is considering a new round of cost-cutting moves, including job cuts, ... there could be continued growth in this market next year.” Flaws added that LCD TV sales in Japan ... increased pressure for pricing relief from our customers,” and that due to the end market weakness [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 15:44:38

Have a short retirement time frame? Blue chips might not be the answer

Photo Credit: Greek Shares The traditional retirement think-tank would say that bluechips should make up your short term retirement ... in a money market account; the dividends bring the returns, and the capital gains are the bread winners ... , the mainstream philosophy was that blue chip stocks were as good as cash. As long as the market [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 16:38:18

C K: In Recessionary Times, One Can Learn a Lot From a Rat

A rat inspired this post. I know that sounds ludicrous. (Actually, if you’ve read my posts for a while, it may not seem so ludicrous.) While reading The New York Times this weekend I was taken aback by a rat and the interesting findings shared by the author. First, I need to excerpt some of the article to explain the author’s premise [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 12:43:43

How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump

Donald Trump & Melania (Courtesy of Boss Tweed via flickr) ... for it. Our natural tendency when given advice or criticism is to become defensive and upset. We try ... with that one.  SOMEBODY can’t take advice…not only does the chart suck but he/she is in denial about it, nice!” “ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 13:30:23

How to Make Money Tutoring: Real-Life Story

I love to hear how people have turned their hobbies into incomes (especially since it's one of my suggested ways to make more money). The following story is from Andy, the same guy who blogs at Saving to Invest. He shares the story of how he turned his skills into a nice side business -- something many of us can do if we put [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 10:31:02

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Mittal may crash Cleveland party. ArcelorMittal (MT) is considering whether to disrupt the $8.8B takeover of Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) ... reading Wall Street BreakfastSeeking Alpha's Market Currentswill keep you current all day long ... eased market concerns over inflation pressures," Freddie Mac economist Frank Nothaft says [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 11:20:00

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