To the Big Apple on a Bar of Soap
I know 2 women that have teenaged daughters that need to raise a couple of thousand dollars for a chaperoned school trip. The trips are both a year away, I believe.
One woman and her daughter learned how to make handmade soap. They are selling scented soap both offline (person to person) and online at etsy. Her soaps are selling quite well. Even her teachers have bought multiples for Christmas gifts. Her first customers are re-ordering. She’s having fun and earning the needed funds.
The other woman is using what I call ‘click it rich’ schemes to try raise the money and posting them all over social networking and free ad sites. She is determined to ‘do this’ for her daughter, because she is a very loving mother. Her last ad said she only needs 300 more “sign ups” and she’ll qualify to win an Amazon gift certificate, which she will then auction towards the trip. She spends hours and hours every day posting “make money” links and “please sign up” links on the web.
I feel sad for one of the girls. I bet you know which. And why.
P.S. The soaps are at: http://newyorksoapexchange.etsy.com
The Marketing Guy Has An Ass for a Head
So, the dilbert cartoon this week showed a guy with underpants on his head. I guess I wasn’t the only one that missed the message. See, he’s the marketing guy, and he has an ass for a head. Because, you know, that’s where he pulls ideas out of. His ass…. err, his head, err…. Apparently, one is not allowed to show an ass in cartoons. (A monkey flying out of an ass is okay, though, apparently.) The original ass-head cartoon is on the dilbertblog. Funny stuff. lol.
101 Dumbest Moments in Business
(#64) WINNER, DUMBEST MOMENT, OUTSOURCING
Blaming a mailing-list vendor for providing bad information, JPMorgan Chase apologizes for sending a form letter about its credit card services to an Arab American man in California addressed to “Palestinian Bomber.”
Somehow, I found that even funnier than Microsoft and Google swearing at each other. (earlier in the list) I mean, come ON, even the spammers trying to sell me Vi*gra can get my name right. Which reminds me… did you know Viagra can make you blind? No kidding! No, really. I’m NOT kidding. It’s in the list.
Click here, it’s a crazy long url…
P.S. Maybe next year they’ll have a category for 87 character links? Snip, people. Snip.
Microsuck and the *really hidden* files.
If you’ve had your computer for a while (say, more than a month) and you use Internet Explorer – any version – here’s a little eye-opener for you. Use your Start –> Find tool and search your compuer for a file folder called Content.IE5 or history.IE5 (No, you don’t have to use IE5. I use IE6 and it worked)
According to an article at Microsuck.com, Microsoft stores hidden files that don’t show even if you have “show hidden files” checked in your folder options. Hidden files that record pretty much everything you (or anyone else) has done online on that computer. So much for clearing your “temporary internet files” or deleting your history!
When I deleted all the junk in there, I freed up a serious amount of hard drive space.
