by Chris Reich | Oct 18, 2008 | Business
This is a picture of Baghdad taken 10-18-08. The sea of protesters wants the U.S. out of their country.McCain and Palin want us to spend more of our blood and treasure to “win” the war Bush said we already won—5 years ago. Look at the crowd. Did the...
by Chris Reich | Oct 15, 2008 | Business
I wasted a lot of time recently trying to dialog with a friend about the election. I thought he was a smart guy until we reached round three of the email exchange. Then it became very clear to me that my friend was an ideologue. Reason will not reach him. He...
by Chris Reich | Oct 15, 2008 | Business
Small business. In a given day, how much time do you spend talking or communicating with customers or prospective customers about them? Do you just check in and say “hi”? No sales pitch, no strings. Just a simple, “how are you?” will do. Send...
by Chris Reich | Oct 9, 2008 | Business
In August 2007, an Australian oil tanker split in two dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil. “Senator Collins” of the Australian Parliament explains what happened. As the emails flood in from well-meaning friends about Barack Obama’s ties to terrorists or...
by Chris Reich | Oct 6, 2008 | Business
There are two ways to sell: Through Fear or BenefitsTake a look at the election, the bailout, Iraq, global warming—just about everything big happening these days. Notice that fear is used as the primary means of persuasion. If we don’t pass the $700...