Housing & GOP in Valpo

Had some time to kill this weekend and drove around looking at the number of For Sale signs in yards within Valpo.  No big surprise that there were still a tremendous amount of them, but what was interesting were the number of FSBO’s…For Sale By Owners have gotten a huge increase as I’m sure many [...]

Chicago Bulls Lose Two Greats

Last night Chicago, and the many fans around the world who grew up around the early years of Chicago sports, lost two of the greats in Chicago Bulls history.  Johnny “Red” Kerr and “Stormin” Norm Van Lier both passed away within hours of each other.   Kerr’s history of Chicago basketball dates back to the [...]

FIRE YOUR UNPROFITABLE CLIENTS

Sorry everyone, been gone on a traveling spree as of late and not a lot of time to actually type.  New client eating up a lot of time…I’m fine with it…anyway, got me to thinking about the rest of my clients.  I think we all have come across people that have been let go of [...]

Blogging, Blog & Blogoshpher

  Have you ever wondered if blogging would help your business? A blog is a simple content-management system that allows you to publish information onto the internet quickly and easily. Because new posts are located at the top, readers can conveniently check for updated content. Here are a few benefits to creating a business blog: [...]

Metadata…Help Retrieve Your Info

Metadata is “data about data.” Adding key information such as search words, title, author, or subject to your digital images, documents, and other electronic files allows for faster, more efficient archival and document retrieval. Some metadata is automatically generated when a document or image is created. For instance, a digital camera will add metadata such [...]

A Ligther Side

Going to take a bit of a lighter side to the end of the week.  Blogo gets thrown out, 59-0 WOW, Obama doesn’t get a single Republican vote in House, and well, teenagers are and will always be…teenagers!!!   Had to go back and find some good TV spots.  Bud Lite has some great banned [...]

Credit Contraction

Here is a very simplified yet good interactive look from US News.com at the problem of credit as it pertains to a global issue.  Just keep hitting the red arrow.

Infrastructure?…What About Housing?

While it was a good day for the Republican Party yesterday, I’m a bit puzzled at the lack of talk about the struggling housing market in all of this.  Very little is being said.  Why?  It is a lead story when talking about the ill that plagues the US, but when it comes to including [...]

Internet Edge, Rich Media Overlooked By Small Business

Read an interesting article today on Inc’s website on how search marketing & rich media are working to help expand the entrepreneurial spirit.  Having had  a host of experience in this type of medium, wasn’t called rich media then since the internet wasn’t a spec in the global regime yet…opps, showed my age, oh well…it [...]

Valpo Athletics Part 2

Got together again with the same group of athletes today and it turns out that after they (B Team) were separated from their A team members for Thursday’s night game, they had to endure the so called “lack of effort” these A members showed and had to run laps on Friday.  Now if we have a [...]