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Month: December 2014
Value just blinked out?
Christmas lights have come a long way since I was a kid. In the days of old, Christmas lights were all on one circuit, so if one bulb…one itty bitty bulb… burned out, the whole strand of lights would stop working and you’d have to check each bulb to figure out which one to replace […]
Is there a market for this?
No, your monitor isn’t showing the picture upside down. This is a real Christmas Tree, real people do buy it, and they eagerly pay real money for it, too! Really! You can be the first on your block to have one of these babies for an investment of anywhere from $150 to over $700 bucks. […]
A nicely packaged lesson in strategy!
Oklahoma City Jeweler, BC Clark, used the same jingle for their Christmas promotion year after year. Then a few years ago, they got to thinking that maybe the market was tired of this jingle, because they were getting tired of it, so they decided to change it. They quickly learned it was a big mistake […]
Here’s the Rudolph story you’ve been waiting for…
I love this story more and more every year, so I run it every year. I have yet to research whether or not it is true, because I really don’t care whether or not it is true! Enjoy! A guy named Bob May, depressed and brokenhearted, stared out his drafty apartment window into the chilling […]
STILL a great gift idea (and now it’s even cheaper!)
Y’know, I hate to name any one book as my “favorite” on any subject, be it business or entertainment, but if I had to pick ONE that I think everyone alive today should read, one that was so inspiring to me I found myself wishing I could get YOU and everyone you care about a […]