It’s Friday and so on to something food-related. Today it’s something you might own or something of which you’ve never heard – potato ricers. For those of you in the latter camp, this kitchen tool is sort of like a huge garlic press. It’s a hand-held thing and you put the spuds into a box that holds one or two. You bring the handle over, push the cooked potatoes through a disk sort of like a meat grinder and the results can resemble rice, hence the term.
Of course, I think about ricers in terms of running a business. Continue reading
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Potato Ricers
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Common Sense
A friend sent me a copy of an email that’s been around the web since 1998 which reminded me of an excellent point. This mail started out as a blog post and has been excerpted and rewritten several times and it deals with the topic of common sense. No, it has nothing to do with Thomas Paine (although his pamphlet would make great reading in today’s climate). Instead, it has to do with sound judgment and that’s what triggered my thought. Continue reading
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4 Marketing Improvements To Make Now
Did you run into any friends this weekend? You might have and I’m willing to wager that the conversation wasn’t solely about their lives and how great they are. It’s like the joke where someone is chattering about themselves for 10 minutes and then says “but enough about ME! How do YOU like my watch?” No one would really do that, right?
Wrong. Seinfeld built a TV series about that sort of self-centered mindset and lots of marketers continue to behave that way every day. So in no particular order, here are a few things they might think about doing differently. Continue reading
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