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F@#k your Billboards
The South Americans are onto something. FIrst São Paulo banned them and now Buenos Aires has decided to take down 60% of them. Outdoor advertising. Billboards. Visual Pollution.
Bans on billboards even happen in America! Vermont, Maine, Hawaii and Alaska, as well as 1,500 towns throughout the US. Across the pond, the Norwegian city of Bergen does the [...]
When Pigs Fly
Wow.
They have cool music playing while I’m waiting in line.
Wow.
The check-in attendant is super-friendly (and sincere), totally patient while I transfer some of my overweight baggage from one suitcase to another. She also tells me that she can give me a two pound tolerance.
Wow.
Free internet in the airline’s departure lounge so I can catch up [...]
Brand South Africa
Like it or not, your brand is your most valuable asset. The way you manage your business and represent yourself and your products affects your brand’s equity. If you are a public company, this will reflect in your share price. The problem is that your share price doesn’t always reflect your true value.
Our country is [...]
Do it like the DoggFather
I don’t even like hip-hop (unless its from the 80’s) but this is interesting.
Hip-Hop record sales are down, leaving rappers like 50Cent and Kanye West fighting each other for their share of the pie. The DoggFather then does something so totally unexpected, so totally un-Snoop with the release of Sensual Seduction and people are going nuts for [...]
Someone’s getting fired at Virgin
This is what I got in my mailbox yesterday. The first thing I think is that it’s a scam / spam. I generally don’t click on links within spam, but on closer inspection, I can see that all the links are legit. Hmmm, what the hell is this? I dig around a bit, and without [...]
Teaching a Man to Fish
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”
Chinese Proverb
My clients are in the food business. I hear them complain all the time about staff. I get phone calls asking where they can find good people and how I [...]
The Big One or Two
I got pointed in the direction of this article.
Interesting stuff, and perhaps a lesson or two in there for all of us. The problem with it though, is that it describes second-time entrepreneurs as ’serial entrepreneurs.’ That doesn’t make sense to me. The article is really referring to ‘guys who made it big with their first company and [...]
Sharpen Your Razor
One of the great things about small business is our ability to make quick decisions and act (relatively) quickly according to the current environment in which we operate. There are no decisions by committee and there is no political office bullsheize to maneuver around. We see a gap and we can take it.
But are we taking the gaps? Are we constantly [...]
Mazda Thinks We’re Stoopid
Tell me you’ve seen that Mazda2 commercial. I only watch TV for about two hours every night, and thank the Lord for PVR, so I can fast forward crap like that.
Mazda, when you decide to interrupt our favourite shows, make sure you’re at least telling us something about what you’re trying to peddle. We don’t [...]
