Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
As a Canva user, I was intrigued by Adobe Express because it seemed very Canva like. I thought now was the time to take a look at Canva vs Adobe Express. Which Is Better Canva or Adobe Cloud Express? Canva has been around longer than Adobe Cloud Express. While many people swear by the free … Read more
I got a weird email from someone so I checked out their website… like you do. The website was an array of self-help and self-improvement theories, each with an available eBook. The small ebook was free, of course, assuming you were willing to pony up your email address and contact information. The bigger ebook (if … Read more
I am a big fan of Woot. Like many others, I like their deal-of-the-day and follow it on a pretty regular basis. Refurbished Roombas are very common on the site. Refurbished Roombas on Woot In case you aren’t familiar with it, Woot.net offers deals every day. When deals are sold out, it is gone. Sometimes … Read more
Updated Update: Seeing a lot of food on the Treasure Truck, which violates my rule against buying food off of trucks, out of vans on the side of the road, or at gas stations. Four Filet Mignon Steaks (6 oz) for $36 is a pretty good deal though. I suppose if anyone has figured out … Read more
Angie’s List spent years as the sort-of premier review site. The thing that made them different was that in order to review a company, you had to be a paying member. The idea was that having people pay meant that they actually cared more, and there would be better, more honest reviews than on a … Read more
Recently, there has been a lot of hand wringing about the so-called Gig Economy. For those of you who don’t know the term, the concept of the gig economy is businesses and labor that operate on a per gig, that is per single transaction, basis. The most well known gig economy based businesses currently are … Read more
Something keeps bothering me about Twitter losing money. The company claims 330 million active monthly users. If they were overly optimistic, or using a very generous definition of “active,” lets cut that in half to 150 million active users each month. Now, if they could earn just $1 per user, that would be $150 million … Read more
There are a lot of articles out there this week about Amazon raising the minimum purchase for free shipping. This is not a price increase, so much as a price cut for Amazon Prime. Consider that Amazon Prime makes up a lot of Amazon’s revenue these days. It’s similar to the model that Costco uses … Read more
Last month, Tesla’s general council gave an explanation to the FTC about why Tesla sells its cars directly to customers instead of using the traditional car dealership model. Of course, the remarks were carefully researched, vetted, and tested so as to not create any unpleasant blow back. That also made them slightly less truthful than … Read more
Once upon a time, I noticed that many of the products I was buying had a Kelloggs Family Rewards box where I usually see a Box Tops for Education box. I started saving Box Tops when my kids hit grade school, and while I don’t think we’ve ever seen big money, our school does pull … Read more
A 60 Minutes tweet and report suggest that the latest Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, needs to make $1.5 BILLION to be considered a success. That number seems pretty high considering the movie cost just $220 million to make, and even a huge marketing number gets you nowhere near $1.5 Billion. Frankly, one wonders … Read more
So, McDonald’s has decided to serve breakfast all day. There was a time where this probably wouldn’t have worked, but increasing standardization and the expansion of many cook lines makes it more plausible now. The question is, Will it matter? The idea of cutting off breakfast was mandatory back when I worked at McDonald’s (a … Read more