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Archive for the ‘Food for Thought’ Category

March 14th, 2008

Setting Competitive Fees

Fortune recently posted this article about setting competitive fees involving interior design.
I know how much money my business needs to bring in to cover overhead fees and how much salary I need to cover my family’s expenses. This amount helps me determine how many hours to work per week.
This sounds very minimalist, but it may […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

March 7th, 2008

Weird Laws

Attention Bar Owners
According to lawguru.com, it is illegal for you to sell beer unless you are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
If you are also opening up a bar in North Dakota, think twice about serving beer and pretzels at the same time - it’s against the law.
Tags: crazy laws, crazy nebraska laws, crazy north […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

February 16th, 2008

eBait

ATTENTION ENTREPRENEURS
eBay pissed people off.  Buyers and sellers are now boycotting eBay because of the following major points:

Increased rates for casual sellers
No more negative/neutral feedback rating
Limited search algorithm

You can find out more in this article posted by Fortune.  This is a business opportunity.  eBay wants to “test the elasticity” of their buyers and sellers - […]

By Jim Gordon -- 4 comments

February 15th, 2008

Wish Me Luck… Oh Yeah, and the Stimulus

I’m driving to Tennessee with a pretty-much-broken gasket… so my coolant is slowly eroding away. Before I leave, I want to share a link I found on CNN detailing the benefits on the latest tax stimulus and its effect on small business.
Tags: small business, stimulusShare This

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

February 12th, 2008

Quick, Webmasters - Valentines Keywords Are Hot!

After searching Google Trends for Valentines Day Gifts, this is what I got:

Wow! I hope the webmasters and SEO experts are capitalizing off of this spike in traffic!
What are some other good combinations for Valentines Day?
Tags: Google Trends, Traffic trends, valentines gift traffic, valentines traffic, valentines trends, webmastersShare This

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

February 6th, 2008

Current Status: Fried…

…not to be confused with “Baked.”

I would like to apologize to my wonderful, sexy, brilliant, amazing, loyal readers - it is the first test week of the semester. I have been taking a test, will have one tomorrow, the next day, the next day, the next week, and maybe several more on top of […]

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February 4th, 2008

Politics and Business a Deadly Mixture?

What kind of effect do you think politics has on the way people see you?  Is it worth voicing your opinion around colleagues?   With Super Tuesday coming up, I wanted to see what people think about this.  Here is my personal view on politics…
Arguing politics accomplishes as much as arguing religion.  People have already made […]

By Jim Gordon -- 2 comments

January 31st, 2008

Sick Day: The Sickening Result of Inevitability

So I’m not sick. I don’t know what was going on last night, but I was running a fever. Today I’m fine… and I’m not complaining. Coincidentally, it was my intention to write an article about germs spreading around the workplace even before I felt like crap.
You know how it happens… one […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 30th, 2008

Location, Location… Oh, and Taste, too…

There are only three things that matter in the restaurant business - location, location, location.  How many times have you heard that one?  I think the first two “location”s make some sense… but it doesn’t emphasize the fact that if you build an electronics store in the middle of New York City, you can’t get […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

January 21st, 2008

MLK’s Impact

It is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - so I decided to make a post about it. This isn’t going to be a long one - but I really wanted to use today as something more than a day off. Where would we be without King’s work in the civil rights movement? […]

By Jim Gordon -- 0 comments

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