Talk of Many Things

If there's one thing that's different about this recession from the ones before, it's the permanent shift of customers from premium to value brands. In a recent report, McKinsey says that…

Retailers incur a cost for accepting credit cards from their consumers. Known by various names like 'merchant discount' and 'swipe fee', it is usually levied as a percentage of the sale value…

Unlike Hertz, which didn't or couldn't stop Avis a few years ago from making a credible claim to "try harder" because it was the #2 in the car rental business, McDonald's…

I recently inquired with my mobile network operator how I could opt for one of their newly announced per second billing plans - assuming, of course, that I'd find one of…

In Part-1 of this post, we'd seen why you can't do without cold calling if you're in the B2B technology business with relatively large ticket sizes (>$100K per deal) and narrowly defined target…

Frustrated with rejections on a daily basis, salespersons have been seeking out alternatives for years to cold calling for generating leads. In former times, the search used to be from…

The WordPress admin website has lately been urging an upgrade  to its latest 2.8.6 version. I only recently upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4. I admit that I'd significantly delayed this upgrade, but…

The new Cry Translator is an innovative, easy-to-use iPhone app that's able to quickly identify the five distinct cries made by infants – hungry, sleepy, annoyed, stressed and bored - thus…

A couple of weeks ago, I'd written about why, contrary to popular opinion, per second billing tariff plans do not portend financial ruin for mobile network operators (Click here and here).…

Many Americans might find it increasingly difficult to get, and hold on to, credit cards in the wake of the recently passed The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD)…