Imagine reading an ad for a cheap movie ticket. Instead of paying the usual $10.50, the ticket is $3 and it’s a brand new movie you’ve been waiting to see. You rush to the box office and buy tickets for your and your significant other. The ticket seller takes your $6 and before handing you the tickets asks “would you two like to sit together? Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints
I did pretty well in school, at least academically (we can talk about the social stuff another time). The reason I bring this up is not to pat myself of the back but to use that record as an example of what can happen when one gets focused on The Big Idea. My method of getting through school, and college in particular, was not just to read a lot and study. Frankly, there was too much reading to do, too many notes to digest, and not enough time to do all of the other things (be on the radio, make music, write for the school paper, etc. – what, you thought I meant party??) I wanted to do in college. So after the first week of class I would go to the professor and ask a very simple question: Continue reading
Filed under Huh?, Uncategorized
I’m always looking for good business lessons in places I frequent on the Web. Hopefully that explains why, dear readers, you get an awful lot of golf and food references as we explore the world of doing smart business.
Today it’s golf and a lesson we can get from a post on Golf.com which provides a blog post that demonstrates how smart businesses operate. Unfortunately, it does so by showing us an example to the contrary. Continue reading
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