February 20, 2008 in Business, Work, technology
Tags: bankruptcy, books, brookstone, Business, cnbc, CNN, crazy, ezine, firing, Forbes, founder, good news, investors, magazine, management, media, News, NY Times, predictions, richard thalheimer, salesman, Sharper Image, technology, termination, Work, you're fired
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 [...]
February 18, 2008 in Business, Entertainment, Television, Work, blogging, hollywood, thoughts
Tags: advertising, auto sales, automobile, automotive, bloggging, broadminded, Business, car sales, christine eads, Cobra, commercial, Entertainment, Ford, Ford Motors, Ford Mustang, hollywood, infomercial, kit, knight rider, marketing, Microsoft, Microsoft Sync, MSNBC, Mustang, nbc, premiere, ratings, sales, season, Shelby Cobra, soap opera, sponsors, sync opera, Take 5, Television, television partner, television ratings, television season, television shows, television station, thoughts, viral marketing, Work, XM, XM Radio
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 [...]
February 13, 2008 in Business, Deals, Economics, News, Politics, Television, Work, blogging, cool stuff, life, media, thoughts
Tags: 2008, ad networks, america, Americans, banner advertisements, billions, blogger, boost the economy, Bush, Business, checks in the mail, cnbc, complainers, complaints, cool stuff, create jobs, Deals, democrats, donny deutsch, Economics, economy, example, executives, federal government, george bush, giving money back, income, jobs, leadership, life, May, media, millions, money, News, next year, opinions, people, Politics, president bush, rebate, republicans, revenue, run-of-network, spend money, spending, stimulus package, success, success stories, symantics, Television, the big idea, thoughts, unemployment, US economy, valueclick, w, Walmart, welfare, WordPress, Work
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 [...]
February 8, 2008 in Business, Economics, Education, Entertainment, News, Politics, Television, Work, blogging, cool stuff, culture, fun, inspiration, life, media, thoughts
Tags: big idea, Business, cnbc, companies, cool stuff, corporations, culture, donny deutsch, dreams, Economics, economy, Education, employees, employers, employment, episode, george bush, inspiration, learning, life, make it rich, media, mentor, million dollar idea, millionaire, millions, nbc, new business, News, Politics, possibility, president bush, rags to riches, regular people, side job, stimulus package, tax rebate, Television, television show, the big idea, thoughts, US economy, us president, venture capitalist, w, wealth, Work
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 [...]
February 7, 2008 in Business, News, Traveling, Work, culture, life, media, rants, technology, thoughts, travel
Tags: News, Business, technology, thoughts, travel, Work, rants, life, overtime, got overtime, salary, high paying job, overtime exemption, common mistakes, supervisor, comp time, clocking hours, not clocking out, travel time, low salary, high salary, unfair payment, unfair treatment, exploited workers, IT, computer programmers, law, legal news, law changes, minimum wage, traps, C# programmers, vb programmers, software developers, network engineers, managers, management, business law, business news, disgruntled workers, disgruntled employees, business mistakes, costly mistakes, valued employees, people, culture, personal
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 [...]
January 29, 2008 in Business, Economics, Environment, News, Traveling, Work, blogging, cool stuff, inspiration, life, media, philosophy, technology, thoughts, travel
Tags: 1800s, 1900s, appliances, Archimedes, battery, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates, Business, business failure, business success, cars, consumerism, cool stuff, dangerous, Economics, energy, Environment, evolution, finger pointing, founding fathers, George Westinghouse, greek inventors, greeks, green products, hippie, homes, houses, hydrogen fuel cell, inspiration, Leonardo Da Vinci, life, light bulb, mainstream media, manufacturing, media, News, opportunities, pacific, philosophy, portable power, power source, renewable resources, Richard Branson, silicon, steam engine, sustainable resources, technology, thoughts, toxic, toxic materials, travel, ups, Work
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 [...]
January 26, 2008 in Funny, Traveling, Work, fun, humor, technology, travel
Tags: 2007 favorites, business trip, desktop, Funny, new york, technology, times square, travel, windows, Work
Any of us who use Windows (you know who you are by the sucker written on your forehead), have seen the “You have unused icons on your desktop” message pop up from time to time. But most of our screens are not displayed on a screen the size of a 10 story building like this [...]