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- 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...
The Future of P2P Lending - Dusting Off My Crystal Ball Remember the good old days of 1998? The Internet was going to change everything. Analysts predicted that we were going to buy our books, music, pet supplies, and groceries over the Internet. It's ten years later and the analysts were right about the first two and wrong about the last...
- 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...
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...- Incredible Presentation by Dean Hunt... I have a new all-time favorite webinar. I've hosted some incredible people over the years on teleconferences and webinars. I can't begin to calculate the value of them all together for the information and tactics shared by some of the best in the business. But yesterday I recorded a webinar...
- Saving money just by asking Most people have a very difficult time asking for a discount. For some reason here in the US we feel like we have to pay full price for everything. In a lot of foreign countries asking for a discount, or haggling, is not only welcomed, it is often expected, and...
- 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....
Piss Off Louis Vuitton, Become a Celebrity Overnight, And Have Yourself Some Blog Success! Guest Post by Christopher Flores Most know me as a New York City joint venture guy or "that moderator on SMC" or "that college dude". More than being a spectacular person 90% of the time, I'm a scientist of people and cultures, an Anthropology student. In Cyberculture, my thing is...- The power of suggestion No one seems to have a clear answer on just how many advertisements the average American is exposed to, but numbers range from a very conservative 300-something to about 3000. Per day. Personally, I'd lean toward the higher number. I've only been awake for a little over an hour, and...
10 Ways to Prove that Frugal Living is Really Green Living in Disguise. I'm probably the most unlikely Green Living advocate on the planet. I'm an advocate of offshore drilling, I voted for Bush in 2004 (bad call I know), and I drive a crossover SUV. Yet, more and more these days, I find myself being slowly taken in by the tree hugger...
Seth's Blog: The pillars of social media site success Image by net2photos via Flickr When A Little Say's A lot- Seth's Blog: The pillars of social media site success. Seth squidoo Posterous Related articles by ZemantaFor the sake of a first posterous post: (goldenskye.wordpress.com)Seth Godin Explains Why You Need a Tribe and Why he is Not on Twitter...- Blog SEO -new e-commerce category Introducing a new e-commerce category to this blog. I've already done one business tips post. And this blog is for chaos magic applied to e-commerce (or other commerce). I've worked for 2 years as the web-master and Search Engine Optimizer for an online t-shirt business (I also designed t-shirts and...
- How is religion helping us? Religion. I look around, especially these days, and I have to ask... How is religion helping us? Yes... I know that there are just as many ideas about the Historic, Geopolitical and ideological notions about religion as there are people that follow the many different flavors that are out there....
Providing an alias for the field name To make the query datasheet easier to read, you can provide aliases for the fields in your query. An alias becomes the field’s heading in the query’s datasheet, but does not affect the field’s name or how the data is stored and used by Access. Aliases are sometimes useful to...- Watch 'The World According to Monsanto' Online For Free. It may be in a few pieces, but here is the entire documentary "The World According To Monsanto", which is a must-watch for anyone concerned about the future of our food supply. If you don't know about Monsanto, now is definitely the time to learn. My friend Adam over at...
Is the Worst Behind Us in the Stock Markets? Yesterday I saw an interesting poll on Yahoo! Finance that asked, "With the stock market showing renewed strength is it safe to buy?" As of now, the results are as follows: Yes. We've bottomed. 28% Stocks will trade sideways. 30% No. This is a head-fake. 42% 64410 Votes to date...Finding Payday Loans Finding payday loans is never easy these days with the exceptions that you do not live in certain states. At present fifteen states have outlawed payday loans and twenty-five additional states are working to abolish the lenders. Payday loans are loans that extend cash until the next paycheck. Most lenders...
- A question of responsibility While surfing today, I ran across a question that intrigued me. It was one that I have not give much thought to, even though it actually has a lot to do with this hobby of mine... Being a Blogger. Do bloggers have a responsibility to act as role models for...
