Starbucks to hike prices on ‘labor intensive’ drinks The coffee giant said late Wednesday that it will raise the price of "labor-intensive and larger-sized" beverages because of soaring prices of green arabica coffee beans. Blockbuster files for bankruptcy The movie rental giant’s U.S. businesses filed for Chapter 11 protection in the …
I am simply amazed at what I see businesses doing to promote themselves, their product or services online. Even more amazed at the agencies these companies hire to do their promotions. I have been around advertising for a long time and seen plenty of ridiculous approaches to marketing but none like what I am …
OK, you are sitting at a coffee shop and noticed your battery on your laptop is very low. You look around and there is only one power outlet in the entire lobby available to plug in and two people are already using it. Yes, I know, what kinda coffee shop only provides one outlet …
For those in business you know to find someone to do business with you should go to where your target customers hang out. Same things goes for golf…kinda. If you golf you go to golf courses to find golfers to play golf, this part is true. So, with that said, logic would dictate if …
I read where Dick Costolo (Twitter’s COO) spoke about the changes happening to Twitter over the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t heard already…. Twitter is rolling out a new layout to the website with increased functionality and more user support. Screen shot of New Twitter Courtesy of TechCrunch I find it unbelievable but […]
It is encouraging to find others in the business world who see the same things and have the same concerns on certain parts of the world’s economy. Though the attached study was reported a number of years ago, it is interesting how relevant the issues are still today. The article also illustrates how so …
You can jump on any of the Social Media RSS feeds and find someone talking about Social Media…including this one. It is what they are saying about Social Media many people are staring to question. Why? Well, If you have a Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account you are starting to see a growing number …
A couple of weeks ago I went to www.OpenCa.mp to seek the answer to this question. Though this issue of ‘what time of day is best to post a Blog’, or anything, online was not directly answered in any of the sessions I attended, Cali Lewis, of GeekBeat.tv ,got close. She covered this with …
The word Social Media gets thrown around just about as much as the term ‘Guru’ that so many people feel describes their level of expertise in Social Media. The term Social Media is starting to get a little old, but overall is still the strongest phrase out there that describes what is taking the …
There is no doubt golf has seen its better days. Even before the economy started to tank golf was struggling to bring more people into the game. The issues people have with golf are many which now includes the burden of economic issues. That is very unfortunate since Golf is a really good stress …
