Ice to Eskimos: Nike plans to make life fun

Ice to Eskimos. Way back when, that was the saying. If you were so good at sales that you could sell anything, you were said to be able to sell “ice to Eskimos.” Now, before I go any further, I do have to...

Butterfinger Dreams: When your past comes back to sell you

      Around about 1992 I became ridiculously convinced of my own wonderfulness. Just a few years removed from high school, I had (by that point) tucked some college under my belt, gotten a...

'Body sold' to Russia kebab shop

Please finish your meal before reading this and if its a kebab feel free to chuck it in the waste bin. Now make sure your sitting down...  Seemingly times are hard in Russia and some of its citizens prefer a...

US hits China pipes with tariffs - Babel told you so

Those whom remember my views and opinions concerning the need for USA to tax certain chineses good to attract home manufacture. Yes the think tank has most definatly took the path that I thought they would. You need jobs in the USA and need a new manufactural base and...

New menu fuels McDonald's profit

It said when people get sad the eat like hell to get happy (well thats my quote actually, (tongue in cheek)). Seemingly eating at Mcdonnald's helps America to get out of the resession. However it also make people...

Women Selling Their Eggs To Pay Off Debts

I don't see what the big hoopla is about this, we've been doing it for years here:   http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/topics/education/Women_Selling_Eggs_To_Pay_Of/        

"Solving needs by solving needs" by Arnie Sherr

Solving needs by solving needs By Arnie Sherr, Sherr Enterprises December 20, 2008      My job; a salesperson; I need money, money, and more money. So then, how do I go about earning the “more” money I need? Well, first I must get my message in front...

Mother Sold Her Twins for Liposuction Operation

Folks are asking the question, "What's Wrong with the Woman in Belgium"? as a woman sells her Children for Liposuction, One Woman has a Rent-a-Womb, another sells her Husbands Sperm at Parties where he is allowed...

1987 Stock Market Crash Shows How Short Selling In 2008 Is Crushing America

"The stock market crash of 1987 seemingly taught America how to protect its markets. We have forgotten. Laws were enacted to protect America from a recurrence of such an event, but the laws that protect us the...

Finnish Church Christmas Bazaar - Long Queues as 60,000 Expected

THE annual Finnish chruch Bazaar in London got under way this weekend with queues stretching down the road.  Last year, record numbers passed through the now well-known event, once a well-kept secret of the...

Cultivate your Niche, Survival Tips for our Consumed to Thrifty Times

If you are in business right now and think you can survive only by trying to make a buck any way you can and trying to be all things to all people, you might have lost your soul and worse could be going the way of the dinosaurs, towards extinction.One of the things I got from...

Mobile Phones: New Market Tools for the Poor

Bangladesh’s poor can now buy and sell goods and services with their mobile phones, thanks to a Bangladeshi company’s pioneering mobile phone marketplace. The company, CellBazaar, serves as a useful role model...

Top Twenty Five (25) Best Selling Video Games Of All Time

"Top Twenty Five (25) Best Selling Video Games Of All Time Video Gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry where over two (2) billion video game titles have been sold. Below, we examine the top twenty five best selling video games of all...

Stocks plunge anew as recession worries resurface

"Wall Street falls sharply as investors, worrying about recess, ponder Obama impact on economy NEW YORK (AP) -- A case of postelection nerves sent Wall Street plunging Wednesday as investors, looking past Barack Obama's presidential victory, returned to their fears of a deep...

Global equity market sell off deepens

The growing economic woes accelerating around the world has forced  economic activity weakening across the world and even European stock markets have plunged. London's FTSE 100 Index opened more than 5 per cent down, on top of a fall of more than 7 per cent...

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