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Adventures in Car Buying – A positive story!

A few weeks ago, I wrote about our “Adventures In Car Shopping – how not to sell” and shared a somewhat painful story about our initial visit and test drive experience with 3 different car dealerships. As I mentioned previously, 2 of the dealerships / salesmen basically knocked themselves out of the running with a […]

What can Craps teach you about Business?

©2004 Martin Ouellet It’s been a while since I’ve been to Vegas, but one of the things I really enjoy there is the game of craps.  It’s a fast moving game that the players and the crowd get excited about.  You can win (and lose) a lot of money very quickly, but if you play […]

Twitter frenzy – what's it all about?

  photo by respres  Twitter – it’s everywhere.  Ashton racing CNN to get to 1,000,000 followers.  Oprah’s on, along with lots of other celebrities.  Growth for twitter the last year has been 2565%.  It’s even being used successfully for business – here’s a great Forbes article on a CEO that’s using it for her business. The […]

Kansas City Startup Weekend – Ideas taking flight!

  photo by jurvetson  The American way is the creative and entrepreneurial spirit that remains strong even in the face of a terrible economy, bad news and a lot of reasons for people to be depressed. I was fortunate enough to participate in the Kansas City Startup Weekend this past weekend and I came away […]

Cool new application – Do you have a Dropbox?

  Do you have a desktop computer at your house and a laptop for work (or multiple work or home computers)? Do you ever have a situation where you need to transfers files from one computer to another? How about sharing files with other people that you’re working with, or making files available for a […]

Do you have the Fire to succeed?

One of the benefits / curses for what I do is always looking for new things to learn.  I sign up for newsletters, I subscribe to blogs, I check Twitter and LinkedIn for what people are finding and talking about.  In the last week, I ran across two very different articles that had a very […]