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Movie Review: Bride Wars starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway This week has been full of movie-going. I saw Bride Wars the other day and it was quite good. I really enjoyed it. I didn’t find Kate Hudson’s character, Liv, all that wonderful, but her relationship with her fiancé, Daniel, was delightful. Emma played by Anne Hathaway was a wonderful...- BUD - An American Company No More! What would 1 Share Purchased 24 Years ago of Anheuser-Busch be Worth When it Was Finally Sold Yesterday While it has been in the news recently, it became official yesterday, Anheuser-Busch is no longer an American Company. That's right, your favorite domestic beer company is now owned by beer GIANT InBev - you can find some full articles HERE, HERE and HERE. Never heard of InBev?  Guess Again - from...
Organic Farms Labeling Factory Farm Milk As 'USDA Organic' Oh. My. Somehow we all knew this day was coming, but COME ON...this is a huge company to be falsely labeling non-organic milk as organic and expecting no one to notice. It turns out that along with Horizon and Aurora brand dairy products, there are a bunch more private label...- Should You Do Business With Unethical Companies? Maybe I've had some sort of "Come to Jesus" moment, but this recession thing has really opened my eyes to companies with poor business ethics. Whether it be carelessness, blissful ignorance or a seemingly infinite supply of tolerance, we consumers seem to take our hard knocks from shady companies in...
- I get emails Who said working in publishing would be unrewarding? ------------------------------------- Subject: Immediate Release: Girls Gone Wild Heads Overseas Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:35:39 -0400 From: Barry Roesler To: oliver@alliancemagazine.org Hello Oliver, I thought you may find this interesting. If you would like to follow-up with Joe Francis or Scott Barbour,...
- Lessons to learn- How did Harley-Davidson turnaround? A Recovery Plan Harley-Davidson's remarkable turnaround – from a firm flirting with bankruptcy to one of America's premier automotive success stories – is what business legends are made of. How did they do it? President and COO Jim McCaslin explains their recovery plan. Operating close to bankruptcy in 1981,...
Lladro Collectibles Collectibles -> Decorative Collectibles -> Lladro-> Figurines When you look at the beauty and grace that is customary with Lladro collectibles, it’s hard to believe that the company originally specialized in jugs and basic kitchenware. It wasn’t until the mid 1950’s that the three original founders of the company, who...
Royal Doulton Figurines Collectibles -> Decorative Collectibles -> Figurines Royal Doulton figurines are an incredibly popular collectible and once you see how intricate the designs are, it is easy to see why. These precious statues are manufactured by the Royal Doulton Company from England and there is quite a lot of history behind...
Review: Secrets of Surrender by Madeline Hunter By: Marcia, guest reviewer It is always a treat to read one of Madeline Hunter's books. They are very well written with compelling plots and historical subplots as well as wonderful characters. Secrets of Surrender is the third book in the Rothwell Series about a family that is declining...
Marketing the Smart Way with Corporate Blogging Corporate blogging is a great way to market your products to the public, but you’ll need to walk that fine line between over commercialization and a total lack of promotion. The main reason that many companies set up their own blog is to find ways to attract new customers and...
- How Rude! Something most guidebooks to Southeast Asian destinations don't mention is rudeness. While many countries in Southeast Asia rely heavily on tourism, sometimes their ideas of what's polite and what's not is at odds with many Western ideas. Some are even at odds with common sense This occurred to me as...
- Closing my business I've been struggling over the past year or so with whether or not to close a business that I have. Now it's decision time. The business hasn't been making much money, mainly because I've had a terrible time booking clients. The clients I do book are extremely happy afterwards --...
I Have a Dream Rather, I had -- and it's been realized! And what do you know, reality is so much better. :-) Welcome to the Inauguration, a hellishly cold day of stalled motorcade bikes, 1 per 500 port-a-potties (the rate determined through strenuous scientific modeling, no less), and copious frostbite, warmed by heartfelt...- The window replacement story Our house was built in the late 70's. Part of its 70's-fabulous look included a pair of windows that weren't even glass. (They were made from two thin sheets of decorative plastic.) But even the windows that were glass had issues: They were practically falling out of their ugly aluminum...
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us! Guest Post By Michel Fortin If you played video arcade games in the late 80’s, even early 90’s, you might remember Zero Wing — a game in which a battle takes place in the year 2101, where you must defend the planet Earth from an alien invasion led by the...
Corporate Blogging Made Easy One of the best ways for a company to reach out to their customers and build a strong brand is corporate blogging. However, there are a lot of misconceptions out there and a lot of room for error. Let’s take a look at some techniques that you can use to...- Viral Marketing Series, Part 1: Viral Marketing 101 Viral Marketing 101 - Not Using It Could Kill Your Business! Creativity This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized....
FREE Media Manipulation by Dean Hunt Part 1 Guest Blogger: Dean Hunt My name is Dean Hunt and I recently got DeanHunt.com featured in the biggest selling quality newspaper in the UK. What’s more, it was also featured in the top 1000 Alexa ranked online newspaper. It was no accident that I got this free publicity, and Jack...- Viral Marketing Series, Part 3: Why and How E-mail Viral Marketing Works Why and How E-mail Viral Marketing Works What does a virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage...
- More Evidence That Old Fashioned Marketing Doesn't Work on Social Networks eMarketer has published new findings regarding advertisers on social networks and revised their projections for ad spending on social sites. “In 2008, companies will spend $1.2 billion on US social network advertising, down 14% from our previous estimate of $1.4 billion, published in May 2008,” says Ms. Williamson. “Even in...
Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty Around The World And At Home. Today is Blog Action Day - a day where almost 9,000 9,400 bloggers around the world get together to write on one single topic in the hope of creating a new awareness. The topic this year is Poverty. And while I could write a thesis on the subject and...- Seven Traits of Successful People Ever wonder why some people can never do wrong? I have been observing successful people around me, and experimenting with different ideas. Here are the seven traits that I've found work well for me in many situations. I think they will make you richer and more successful in many ways....
Tell Starbucks to say no to rBGH! As if we needed another reason to not buy $3.50 cups of brown water.... "Starbucks uses milk produced with artificial growth hormones, also known as rBGH. In 1991, a report by Rural Vermont revealed serious health problems in rBGH-injected cows that were part of a Monsanto-financed study at the...
Investing in this Financial Crisis Sunday Paper - March 8th, 2009 2009 Investment Strategy By Gary Mozda For Investors and friends with a long-term investment focus (i.e. 5+ years) Disclaimer: First and foremost I am in no way providing sound financial advice that you should use to blindly invest with. These are my ideas and...- Worst Date Ever? Cough It Up! OMG, it's 10 a.m. and I'm sitting in bed, still in my PJs, laughing my ass off. Ah, the life of a blogger! (Of course, the pay's not great, haha.)Â At Divine Caroline there's a hilarious "chit chat" on the subject of terrible dates. Here's my worst date ever, see...
- Weekend Links - Announcing The Money Writers Edition For about a year now, I've been part of a loose network of bloggers. These bloggers included The Sun's Financial Diary, Money Smart Life, The Digerati Life, and Generation X Finance have consulted with each other to improve our blogs and our writing. We've recently decided to formalize the relationship...
Going to surgery? time for Last Will and Testament... In the next few hours I'm going into surgical operation where they will hurt my shoulder in order to fix it, I'm not sure if I'll ever wake up after being drugged so here is my last Will and Testament Being of sound mind, do hereby declare that this is...
Why do humans kiss? Beware the 'Kiss Of Death'. How do you know when you've received it? A good indication is that the person kissing you is a big, fat man called 'Don' who smells of cigars and Grappa. If, while kissing you on the lips, Don squeezes your cheeks and sends 'the boys'...
Consumption Smoothing - Spend 'til the End I have read (and continue to read) many books on retirement planning. Most of them have been on the money and financial aspects of retirement. Lately, I have taken more interest in the mental and emotional parts of retirement. I am reading a book now that addresses those specific issues....- Is America dying? I read the papers, watch and listen to the news, read the blogs and listen to the way people talk and the question arises... is the America that we, as Americans, know and love, dying? This is not a question of philosophy or morals so much as it is a...
