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 […]
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 …
Yes, I have this Love vs Hate relationship with Facebook. Well, maybe it is more of a WTF? though towards Facebook being worthy as a business networking source. I find a lot of my High School friends there, but as far as anyone saying…Hey, send me a contract or sign me up..Nada! I was reading […]
(This is not a paid advertisement even though I am part of the Thesis Affiliate program, they did not require me to post this blog..this I wanted to do because the Thesis Theme rocks!) The other day I was looking at my download file on my PC and noticed I had over …
It has been a very long while since I have been to a conference on blogging..heck, I don’t remember have ever attended a conference on blogging..if I did, it was not as memorable as OpenCa.mp. I have been around hundreds of startup events in my life and know the tell tale signs …
Each time I sit down with a new client I am confronted with a periphery of remarks about Twitter. The most profound questions so far are.. Who uses Twitter? Why use Twitter? and What value is Twitter to those who use Twitter? The answer to these questions usually comes from explaining Who …
