Opportunity Knocks My Head

During the holiday of 2006, I posted a verbose blog about how Sharper Image is going down the tubes. My prediction was off by a few months, but reality has finally hit The Sharper Image management. Sharper Image Bankruptcy is now reality.
I had to update this blog as news about Sharper Image’s Bankruptcy started hitting [...]

After having slept through most of the 2 hour premiere of the new Knight Rider on NBC last night, I was about to say it would have one season of life. That was until I paid closer attention to the sponsors: Ford and Microsoft.
The new K.I.T is a Mustang. Depending upon what happens to sales [...]

What would happen if everyone in America watches The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC? First, there would be a run on the cable companies because you can only get CNBC on cable. Second, fellow blogger Tony Iovino would take his $600 check he’ll receive from the Federal government in May and actually cash it to [...]

Anyone who says the Bush stimulus package of a $600 tax rebate is not going to stimulate the US Economy hasn’t been watching The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. I’ve seen more millionaires made from $600 or less on that show than I ever thought was possible. The moral of the story: Your wealth is [...]

A while back, I had posted about a very negative experience I had with 800Flowers.com:

Important News on Your Order from 1-800-FLOWERS.COM!
800-Flowers.com Continued
These were two of my biggest (and more read) rants I’ve ever posted. Not too long after my second rant, I received a phone call from 800-Flowers.com doing exactly what I had been asking [...]

Think again! Gotovertime.com has compiled a list of common reasons we think we are exempt from overtime:

Paid on a Salary
Paid more than $95K
Supervise two people
Comp time given for overtime
Only clocking 40 hours
Not clocking in and out
Not paying for travel time

Chances are you’ve fallen into one of these traps. I [...]

Sometimes chalked up as “hippie consumerism”, green products have not received as much mainstream coverage as some of these great innovations deserve. Nor have they been accepted as widely as there is a true market for green products. There is a laundry list of reasons that green products have been muddling along for the last [...]

My company is gearing up for a significant push into Internet Marketing. One of the first things I did was go an find a great resource for researching keywords. There are dozens of them on the market: Keyword Tracker, SEO Book (which uses several other research tools), Google Keyword Suggestion Tool, and my personal favorite [...]

Bernanke’s rookie year was a bit rough for the nation. His second year hasn’t had much success either. However, it appears that he is coming out of the textbook world of economics and into the real world. Yes, the world where living, breathing humans with names actually lose their jobs and houses rather than his [...]

In a stark blow to the Holy Roman Catholic Church, experts in Internet technology have concluded that the World is not the center of the World Wide Web. In fact, scientists now suggest that Sun is the center of the Internet! Experts were also quick to announce that MySQL was not going to hire Bill [...]