This Guy is Right, The Government Shouldn’t Take My Money…
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What Dumb Companies Do in a Recession (Krispy Kreme)
Just back in from a donuts with dad “breakfast” at my kids’ elementary school. Two weeks ago the local Krispy Kreme franchise offered to donate several dozen donuts for the event. Yesterday the folks from school went to pick them up and were told by Krispy Kreme “we can’t be giving away donuts, there’s a [...]
Proposed Smoking Ban in Virginia-Bad For Business
Virginia has under consideration a ban on smoking in restaraunts. Bad idea. Look. I don’t smoke and hate the smell. I think its a disgusting, harmful habit. I personally would not choose to eat in a restaraunt that allows any smoking. But…. If a business owner makes a choice to allow smoking in his restaraunt [...]
Ben takes on the SLEEP folks in Fairfax and says “stop whining”
Recently, Fairfax County Schools have been contemplating having the high school kids start later. This is a proposal put for by a group called SLEEP (Start later for excellence in education proposal.) Kelsey, my junior at Robinson, gets on the bus at 6:35 in the morning. A recent article in the local newspaper quoted some [...]
600,000 More People Now Available to Help You Get it All Done
The biggest “complaint” I heard after our Jump Start Legal Marketing Conference last weekend was “Ben, you’ve given us so much to do….so many ideas….how will I ever get it all done?” Today’s Washington Post headline blasts the news that 600,000 more people lost jobs in January. The Wall Street Journal has a picture of [...]
Florida Supreme Court: Wrong on Lawyer Websites (Again)
The Florida Bar news had an interesting article this past week about a hearing recently held about lawyer websites by the Supreme Court of Florida. The central part of the debate centered around the question of whether every page of a website should be pre-submitted to some “committee” for its blessing. I think the Florida [...]
Outbreak of Capitalism Causes Established Business Community to Shudder
Great article in the February 16, 2009 print edition of Forbes magazine. CrowdSpring.com is an online tool where, if you need graphic design of any type, you post your project and designers not only bid on the project but they submit their actual work on your design and compete for your business. What a novel [...]
