Archive for August 4th, 2004
Fast Company: “Amazon.com’s founder is a study in contradictions — analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. What really makes this remarkable entrepreneur tick?”
Slate: “It’s no accident the automakers churn out so many SUVs that break the 6 [thousand pound] barrier. By doing so, these “trucks” (and that’s how they’re classified by the U.S. Department of Transportation) qualify for a huge federal tax break. If you claim you use a 3-ton truck exclusively for work, you can write [...]
John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing: Small AM stations are hungry for content. Talk radio is still hot and hosting your own radio show throws you to front of the expert line in a heartbeat. Here’s the pay off. When you are on the air, you are an expert, and experts get to charge more [...]
Father and Son Franchise Takes on HP
Forbes: When you think about threats to Hewlett-Packard’s bottom line, you have to consider Daniel Wencel. He and 20-year-old son Chris have created a new franchise, dubbed Caboodle Cartridge, that refills old ink-jet and laser printer cartridges for about half the price of a new cartridge. This kind of small business ordinarily wouldn’t catch the [...]
