Archive for July, 2008

SONY Sport Headphones Review

July 30th, 2008 | Category: Gadgets

Sony sport headphones are specially designed for active use while running or working out. The standard ear bud headphones that come with your portable mp3 player are not suitable to wear when you are constantly moving, they are uncomfortable to wear, do not stay in your ears and there is a tendency for the cable to get tangled and pull away from the player itself. (Read the full post about ‘SONY Sport Headphones Review’…)

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Criminal Recycling: Thieves Target City Manhole Covers

July 28th, 2008 | Category: Marketing

A friend of mine recently took all of her sly gold jewelry and sold it for a couple of hundred dollars. She did it because business is bad, she needed the specie, she doesn’t wear the jewelry.

She is not the only one who has recycling metals for cash on the brain. Seems that with the soaring require to be paid in steel , there is now a real problem in cities throughout the country where criminal recyclers are helping themselves to incorporated town manholes covers. Recycling a manhole capsule brings in about  $20 at the scrap yard.

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Minimum vs. Livable Wage

July 27th, 2008 | Category: Marketing

Last week, about 2 million workers got a salary boost — the Federal minimum wage increased from $5.85 an hr to $ 6.55. Predictably groups advocating for small businesses say the increase will mean that workers resolution get fewer hours, some people will get laid off, purchaser service will deteriorate, and prices will increase.

Last week, the Labor Department reported the fastest inflation since 1991 - 5 percent for June compared with a year earlier. Energy costs soared well-nigh 25 percent. The price of food rose added than 5 percent. ; So the minimum bet hike is ”a drop in the bucket compared to the increases in costs, declining strive market, and declining household wealth that consumers be obliged experienced in>the past year,” Lehman Brothers economist Zach Pandl uttered.

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Soaring Chennai Property Prices - Boon or Curse

July 26th, 2008 | Category: Business, Educational, Marketing, Other

Chennai is in a position to emerge as a next realty tech hub after Bangalore but the increasing property prices are deterring its path. The city is witnessing a rising demand for economical qualitative office space and housing. Chennai property prices are swinging as the real estate values are increasing at some places and decreasing at others.

Chennai properties at old Mahabalipuram road are witnessing a downfall in transaction rate. Of the total 4 million sq ft of space only 1.7 million sq ft were taken on rent and the vacant space accounts for about 11% as per C&W report. Reason cited by the property dealers in the city is these projects are overpriced and are not able to find the actual buyer. (Read the full post about ‘Soaring Chennai Property Prices - Boon or Curse’…)

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5 Small Business Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

July 24th, 2008 | Category: Business, Educational, Marketing, Other

Small business owners can have a hard time finding the right ways to market their product or service. There are plenty of right ways to do things, and plenty of wrong ways. Here is a brief overview of some of the mistakes to avoid when marketing your small business:

Mistake #1: Not researching your product need
Many people have a wonderful idea of a product that is needed in the market, and then spend all their money to create it. You need to research the market first to make sure there isn’t already a similar product out there, and whether there is even a need for your product.

Conduct market research, hold focus groups and only make a small run of your product - a few hundred or so – to test your target market with. (Read the full post about ‘5 Small Business Marketing Mistakes to Avoid’…)

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The Canvas Art of Jackson Pollock

July 23rd, 2008 | Category: Art

Paul Jackson Pollock was born as the youngest child of LeRoy McCoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock, in 1912. Four elder brothers made up the rest of his family. Though born in Cody, Wyoming; Pollock was brought up in California and Arizona. After a period of study at the Manual Arts High School located in Los Angeles, Pollock joined his brother Charles to study at the Art Students League with him under American muralist and painter – Thomas Hart Benton. Benton had a lasting influence on the abstract art output of Pollock. The art techniques of David Alfaro Siquieros, José Clemente Orozco - a Mexican muralist and El Greco – a Spanish painter, also greatly influenced Pollock. (Read the full post about ‘The Canvas Art of Jackson Pollock’…)

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

July 22nd, 2008 | Category: Art

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was published in 1966, and is based on events that happened almost fifty years ago. The events were real. This is not a work of fiction. The Clutters, an appropriately surnamed Kansas family, have their own complications within their rambling homestead. What family doesn’t? Clutter the father is a farmer. Who isn’t in these parts? Life is not so productive of late. Whose is? The two younger children, a daughter and a son, still live in. The others have left, happily.

And then, in November 1959, the four Clutters are found gagged, apart from the mother, all with their throats cut and their brains blown out by shotgun fire. (Read the full post about ‘In Cold Blood by Truman Capote’…)

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Penis Enlargement Pill Product

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Health

There are many penis enlargement pill products on the market. The most popular penis products are: penis pumps, penis exercises, hypnotism, surgery, weights and penis enlargement pills. These are the most popular products.

What are these products and what can they do for you? Penis pumps are the oldest form of penis enlargement products. These have had various successes for some users. With a penis pump you place a tube over your penis. The pump is either manual or electric. When the pump is pressed the air is removed from the tube. This causes your penis to swell with increased blood. (Read the full post about ‘Penis Enlargement Pill Product’…)

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The DMV - Did You Know They Do All This?

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Business, Educational, Marketing, Other

Your city or state Department of Motor Vehicles is there to help you keep up to date on your automobile information. These days, modern communications makes getting information from the Department much timelier. You can get information about affordable car insurance and the insurance companies, and also can find good and reputable repair shops. These are just a few of the services that the motor vehicle department offers these days.

The motor vehicle department is an office where you may renew your driver’s license, and license plate tags for your car. You can even get personalized plates for your vehicles, although the personalized plate will cost more than the regular plate. (Read the full post about ‘The DMV - Did You Know They Do All This?’…)

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Would You Blow Off A Meeting With The CEO To Get A Haircut?

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Marketing

Sitting at a reception at BlogHer08 a woman that I did not know asked the question that BlogHers ask each other at these kinds of conferences. 

"What do you blog about?"

"Businss Culture," I related.  Realizing that I needed to highly finished I said,"For instance, I blogged about Best Buy’s Results Only Work Environment where you don’t have to business to meetings you don’t want to. "

It touched a nerve. This is a woman blogger who is also an executive at a major consumer products corporation.

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