I recently ran across this article on the 8 beers America no longer drinks and it made me pause for thought…what is my favorite beer? After a few minutes, I quickly jotted down a few of my favorites (in no particular order): Continue reading
Many businesses invest millions of dollars on their building, furniture, advertising, and marketing. However, most fail to invest on the most critical element of their business, people. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Customer Service, Uncategorized
Tagged business, customer service, employees
The recent craze over these deep discount coupon sites (Groupon, Living Social, and Deal Chicken) has many businesses making rash decisions without thinking about the full cost for this type of marketing. Here’s how it works….
A sales person from one of these sites will call the business and present to them an opportunity to reach out to millions of users with an offer to try their business (at a severe discount often times 30% to 75% off regular prices) for no advertising costs. That’s right, it’s FREE advertising. Wait, it’s not really FREE. Typically, these sites will charge 25% to 50% as a commission for any sales generated from the deal. Let’s do the math. Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, New Media, Online
Tagged advertising, business, deal chicken, deals, groupon, living social, marketing, online marketing
Caught your attention didn’t I? When I saw this billboard driving down the streets of San Diego, I had to stop and take a picture.
Still A Virgin?
So I was traveling from Seattle, WA back to Las Vegas yesterday when I noticed this seat near Gate B-14 at Sea-Tac International Airport. Seriously, what the hell are they thinking? LOL Who is going to sit there? Hilarious.
Who's going to sit in that last seat? Ha!
I first heard about the Pinball Hall of Fame from Yelp! about a month ago. When I heard that they had dozens of old pinball machines & old school video games, I knew I had to take my son there to check it out. The hall of fame is located on East Tropicana in a nondescript, older shopping mall. A small vinyl banner hangs above the entrance of the hall of fame, hardly what you would expect for a HOF!
Pinball Lord @ the Pinball Hall of Fame
Posted in Family Life, Nostalgia, Weirdness
Tagged creepshow, creepy, donkey kong, Las Vegas, nevada, nv, pinball, pinball hall of fame, space invaders, tempest, the dark backward
Over the past 2 1/2 years our family has used compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs in our home. We converted all of our light bulbs to CFL in hopes that we would be able to save money on our electric bill, which can be very high in the summer months in Las Vegas. At the time, CFL bulbs were relatively expensive selling for anywhere from $3.99 to $5.99 each. The manufacturer claimed that the bulb would last 10 years, so when I did the math it would save us money in the long run. On the Energy Star website it claims that CFL’s last 10x longer than regular light bulbs. However, this is not the case. Continue reading
Posted in Misc
Tagged compact fluorescent, energy, energy star, green energy, hassle, light bulbs
