• Archive for July, 2008

    Winners and Losers: K-mart and Best Buy

    by  • July 31, 2008 • Podcasts, Rants • 6 Comments

    Joseph Jaffe from Jaffe Juice has a podcast that I have been listening to over the last week and a bit.  I found him on ITunes while looking for good marketing podcasts (and it is good) to listen to while I commute.  I downloaded his last 11 episodes, starting from his 100th episode and have [...]

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    Why I’m Starting to Love Starbucks

    by  • July 30, 2008 • Social Media • 0 Comments

    About 8 years ago I spent a summer traveling with a camp around the west coast of the United States.  Throughout our travels, we would stop off at rest areas to fill up with gas and junk food.  The most popular stops were always the ones with a Starbucks inside.   Everybody was crazy about the [...]

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    How flexible are you?

    by  • July 24, 2008 • Change • 0 Comments

    I recently read an article about Steven Jobs from Apple that joked about Steven having a plaque on his desk that read “my way or the highway”.  The article gave Jobs a lot of credit and called him a genius but they  mentioned that he has gotten himself into a little bit of trouble with [...]

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    Can you do the Impossible?

    by  • July 22, 2008 • Increase Luck • 3 Comments

    Last week I wrote a review of Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek and I wanted to share the story below from the book since my last post was about redefining the “impossible”.  While teaching at Princeton University, Tim Ferriss offered a challenge to his class.  He preached to the class that you don’t need [...]

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    If a Square Watermelon is Possible, You have to Rethink Everything You Thought was Impossible

    by  • July 21, 2008 • Increase Luck • 2 Comments

    I’ve always wanted to visit Japan.  I am people watcher, I love to travel, see new places and see how people live their lives.  The different cultures fascinate me and I am always excited to see new things.  I have traveled to six countries, seven provinces in Canada and forty-four states in the USA.  Although [...]

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    Why I Stumble Podcasts

    by  • July 18, 2008 • Podcasts, Social Media • 0 Comments

    I love my IPod.  I have Itunes set up to download Podcasts every day and I sync them while I am at the office.  I do most of my listening and watching while commuting while I am nowhere near a computer.  Yesterday I was watching a podcast from Andrew Lock of “Help! My Business Sucks!” [...]

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    Why Participate in Entrecard’s Contests

    by  • July 17, 2008 • Contests • 2 Comments

    For all of you Entracard holders out there, you must already know that Entrecard has partnered up with SezWho to create a better, more interactive experience for bloggers.  To build momentum for this partnership, they launched a contest which they hope will get a lot of their members to start publicizing the 2 sides and [...]

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