1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum. 1892 – Chicago ‘L’ begins operation 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold. 1933 – The first […]
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The following post is made possible by support from UPS. A reader wrote: Dear Dane, We make widgets in our garage in Reno, Nevada. We have a website and want to start accepting orders worldwide, but is there anything we need to know or do to export internationally? Uh oh, before I say anything, this
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A reader wrote: I’m struggling in my marketing. I understand that I advertise benefits and not features, but since some of my company’s products are, shall me say, odd, I don’t really know how to do that. Ok, ok, we sell fake vomit and other novelty gags. The products seem to sell themselves when people
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For some weird reason, I have a real fascination with lobster businesses. This haul has made my day: A fisherman hauled an extremely rare blue lobster out of the waters off Prince Edward Island’s North Shore Wednesday. Blair Doucette landed the lobster in North Rustico. Only about one in four million lobsters is blue. The
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