The entire attention economy is based on the idea that “engagement” (whatever that is) has some monetary value. Likes and favorites are worth something, and thus brands are willing to spend big bucks on Twitter and Facebook ads. Well, some brands. Proctor & Gamble is not convinced.
What if the entire …
The WaWa near me has had a “help wanted” sign on the door pretty much since the day we moved to Richmond back in November. The job pays $10+ and hour, all shifts available. No more than 29 hours a week though, because, benefits.
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With the start of MLB season comes the annual challenge of keeping up with all the important baseball news. Back in the olden days you would open up your local newspaper to the sports section. If you lived in a baseball town you got in-depth coverage of the hometown team …
I’ve been selling for a living since 1995. I’ve learned a few things.
The territory is never in good shape. Don’t believe them when they claim it is. If the territory was producing like they claim, the previous rep. would still be there.
If they can’t explain the comp plain …
As I’ve written previously, I’ve changed how I use Facebook. It’s mostly about Groups and Events for me. I unfollowed everybody except my wife and kids. Now, when I want to check in with my friends I simply go straight to their walls or I use the “New Posts” filter …
Facebook was not hacked by Cambridge Analytics. Hacking implies that CA broke into their data or otherwise circumvented Facebook somehow to get personal data on 5 million Americans. What actually happened is far, far worse.
The system worked exactly as designed. Facebook is in the data collection and sales business …
I was thinking last month that Roanoke may be the last major city we had not visited in Virginia. Roanoke has a major St. Patrick’s Day party downtown.
Problem solved. Roanoke has been removed from the list of places in VA that we had not visited.I guess we can …
14 years ago the Boston Red Sox were heading into the 2004 sense with renewed optimism. Even though the sting of Aaron F’ing Boone’s extra inning game 7 HR had not quite faded, the Red Sox had added Curt Shilling and Keith Foulke to the team, and there was reason …
The Autobiography of Malcolm X has been on my Amazon wish list for years. A couple of weeks ago the price on the Kindle edition dropped to $1.99, so I finally bought it. I finished reading it last night. I don’t know what I was expecting from the book …
I read City by Clifford Simak recently. If you haven’t read it, it is a dystopian cold war era novel in which man abandons the cities due to fear of nuclear war. Society breaks down as everybody lives in isolation, population dwindles, and eventually most humans abandons the earth, leaving …
