Archive for August, 2008

McCain Hits Home Run

Posted on August 26, 2008. Filed under: Politics | Tags: , , , |

Man-O-Man, have the McCain people ever done one heck of a good ad.
In it is video of Hillary Clinton saying “I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he would bring to the White House, and Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002″.
Here is a link to the video.
Wow!  Sounds like an endorsement.
That’s [...]

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Give ‘em Some Candy

Posted on August 14, 2008. Filed under: Advertising, Business, Guerilla Marketing, Marketing, Self Promotion | Tags: , , , , , , |

Some time ago I read that when waiters and waitresses leave mints with the check their tips go up.  Spend a couple of dollars on candy to leave with the check and you make it back in one or two customers.  Pretty simple.
Are you leaving candy for your customers?  Are you giving them something extra [...]

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Worth Watching????

Posted on August 12, 2008. Filed under: Political Science, Politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The Democrats may give us a National Convention worth watching after all.
For soooooo long both the Democrats and Republicans have had essentially boring conventions.  Hardly worth watching since the nomine was a forgone conclusion long before the convention was held.  No suprizes to see, no “dark horse” contentder to come out and steal the nomination, [...]

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John Edwards, is it fair?

Posted on August 9, 2008. Filed under: Politics | Tags: , , , , |

OK, let me start off by saying I am not a fan of John Edwards, but I think he is being treated unfairly by his fellow Democrats.
When Clinton had affair after affair after affair, lied about the affair to a Grand Jury, and then (eventually) admitted he had lied, the Democrats all rallied around him [...]

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Telephone Etiquette

Posted on August 4, 2008. Filed under: Business, Good Business, Marketing | Tags: , , , , , |

Recently I had a very bad telephone experience, and want to share it with you as a way of demonstrating the completely wrong way of answering the phone.
I was calling an organization I’m a member of because I couldn’t log in and check my information.  While I thought I had the correct log in ID [...]

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