Archive for the 'Business & Marketing' Category

It’s not often you hear about great customer service these days. Seriously, when is the last time you got off the phone with “support” and were actually not pulling your hair out or screaming obscenities? “Customer service” has become a meaningless word to categorize good service and bad. And as a result, it seems like [...]

When I was 8 or 9, my grandmother used to take me yard selling. We’d get the newspaper on Friday afternoon and make our plan. We’d pick which ones were the best, and plan the schedule around them.
We would map out all of them and make an order we’d hit them, the best ones we’d [...]

I’ve launched a new blog - DebtFreeBlog.net. The website came about as my wife and I have taken a strong look at our current financial situation. We looked at our current debt levels (normal for our income) and I figured how much money we actually spend on interest per month and year. It’s just astonishing.
As [...]

Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett have published a book about how to make money blogging: ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.
I first met Darren at SxSW in Austin in March on the Chitika/ProBlogger Beer Bus and at the b5 Blog Network Camp. Darren and Chris are both full-time blog [...]

I was searching Google this morning - I’m trying to find a list of cell phones/mobile devices and their javascript capabilities - and noticed this interesting paid ad by Verizon.

In the trenches of everyday work, it’s understandable to make a mistake here and there, but if you’re paying for an ad, you should make it [...]