March 2009
Monthly Archives
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How Not to Get Fired: Top 10 Tips For Keeping Your Job in a Bad Economy
It’s so much easier to keep your job than look for a new one in this economy. These tips are a good reminder for all of us to love the one we’re with. 1. Do Your Job – Only Better A freelancer I know recently told me she’d rather just go to work for someone […]
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Online Tools & Investment Software: An Overview
Online tools and investment software enable investors to track their investments’ potential, ideas, and records in more detail. They are most useful for intermediate to advanced investors. In this article, we’ll differentiate between online tools and investment software, explain the perks of each, give you a list of the best ones, and cover some additional […]
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A Parody of 10 More Corporate Logos
Remember our corporate logo parody post from last December? It depicted 15 corporate logos altered to reflect current economic conditions. We couldn’t resist creating 10 more corporate logos as a follow-up. We thought the following might suit the companies–after the crisis: […]
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Costco Makes it to Australia
Some brands are so embedded in the American psyche that reading about them from a fresh perspective is almost shocking. Take Costco, which is getting ready to open its very first Australian store. The Australian reports: US bulk retailer Costco will open its first Australian store in July. It will introduce low-price, high-volume retailing at […]
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25 St. Patrick’s Day Quotes and Irish Sayings
Impress your colleagues and friends this year with one of the 25 St. Patrick’s Day quotes and Irish sayings below. If you rattle off one quote per beer, this entire post should get you through the night: 1. If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! –Irish saying 2. Many an opportunity is […]
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MyHusbandNeedsaJob.com: An Enterprising Wife Markets her Husband
Mike Stearns, a newly minted Georgetown MBA, is finding it nearly impossible to land a marketing job. So his wife, 28-year-old Robin Stearns, bought the domain name myhusbandneedsajob.com (Note: at time of writing, the website wasn’t working…perhaps Mike found that job), purchased a MacBook with her tax refund, and built Mike a portfolio site. “My […]
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To Bail Out the Country, Stop Bailing Out Corn
In lay terms, a bailout is just another kind of subsidy. We’ve been bailing out corn, which appears in everything from soda to ethanol, since around 1933. Why not pull the plug on one bailout–corn–to finance the current one? From the Environmental Working Group: Over the past twelve years, taxpayers have spent $56 billion on […]
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Ben Stein Says No to Cap and Trade
The inimitable Ben Stein writes about why cap and trade is a bad idea: Two main ways to address the issue are under discussion. One would involve a nationwide system of credits for carbon burning, with a total cap. The credits would be traded in national and maybe world markets. Entities that emit more carbon […]
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Study Claims Average Cell Phone User Pays $3.02/Minute
Found this odd claim reported in the Christian Science Monitor: In San Diego, mobile users pay more than $3 per minute on average. The Utility Consumers’ Action Network surveyed 700 cellphone users and found that the average cellphone bill went down since 2004, falling from $57.92 for a single-line account to $37.15 today. However, “cost […]
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5 Ways South by Southwest Can Help Your Business
South by Southwest (SXSW) is a unique event that combines music, film, and digital media into one massive, 4-day series of events. Each of the three South by Southwest event categories have their own conferences, festivals, and trade shows, so participants need to register for one of three themes. This year, SXSW takes place in […]
