It’s All About What Others Say About You

Money can’t buy it.The Clintons learned a lesson this week. It’s a lesson that every business needs to learn: it is far more important what others are saying about you than what you have to say about yourself.Bill and Hillary tried to play the race card....

Time Machine

If you think a website is a static billboard to advertise your business, go back in time.There’s a website that might scare the hell out of you. It’s a sort of web time machine. If your own site looks like the typical site of 1999, you’d better get...

I Want My Robot and Flying Car

If I had to pick one, I’d take the robot maid over the flying car.Considering the way people drive on controlled roads, I don’t think flying cars would be a very good thing. However, the futurists have promised mechanical servants for the past 100 years...

Daddy, what’s a service station?

It’s 2 cents cheaper across the street.Ever wonder why us old-timers call gas stations, “service stations”? Back in the day, a uniformed attendant would run out to your car as soon as you pulled into a gas station. You’d tell him to “fill...

There’s a what?!

I hate it when that happens.The latest government blunder is the best one yet. Bernanke cut interest rates 75 basis points to “prevent” recession. Prevent? We’re in it. I said 6 months ago we’d be in one by now. Look back at my Blog posts....