With corporations hemorrhaging jobs, it’s no surprise that interest in self-employment is skyrocketing. For me, personally, a pink slip was just the motivation I needed to get off my ass and finally start a business of my own. All you newly unemployed are finally realizing the ugly truth: that having 100% of your income coming […]
Author Archives: Tom McKay
The Wal-Mart version of health food?
From a recent flyer:
Amazon's amazing customer service
When it comes to customer service, everyone talks a good game. But Amazon delivered — even when the Post office didn’t. Brief recap: An Amazon customer’s purchases were shipped, but lost en route by the Post Office. Amazon not only replaced the packages, but upgraded the shipping to one day delivery so it would arrive […]
Clash of the Branding Titans
In this corner… Apple’s iPhone. High-status. Prestige. Pricey. And in this corner… Wal-Mart. Low price leader. Low status. Place to buy commodities and cheap bargains. If the gossip is true and Apple starts selling iPhones in Wal-Mart stores, possibly (but not likely) for $99, what happens next? What happens when these two powerful brands meet? […]
Hubris trips BLEEPING Blagojevich
It had to happen. Illinois’ vacant Senate seat is now up for bid on eBay — just as it was in Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office. Of course, the bleeping bigmouth may be too bleeping busy to handle the transaction himself. As one of the funnier auction listings warns, “Please be advised I will be away […]
Writing is easy. Unless, of course, someone has to read it.
An Australian study has found that txtngs fstr till sum1 trys 2 rd it. Um, I think they mean that using abbreviations and shorthand makes it much faster to write text messages — but twice as long for the poor recipient to read and understand them. Writing can be a lot of fun. That’s why […]
Have I got a car (or two) for you
How bad is the auto business? So bad that a dealer in Europe is offering two-for-one: Buy one car, get a second one free. How can he afford it? Distributors in southern Europe have been so desperate to get cars off their lots that they were selling them at huge discounts. From a marketing standpoint, […]