I’ve always had a breakfast bar in the homes I’ve owned because that’s an item on my house hunting must have list. The versatile bar expands one’s casual dining space and makes a great place for kids to do homework and have a snack. Sometimes, it’s easier to find a house with a breakfast bar [...]
Tags: decorating, home bar, interior design
I’m not much of a musician, but I’ve been known to plink around on the piano or my dad’s acoustic guitar. Every now and then I want to try a new piece of music, but I’ve discovered that music stores that sell sheet music or going the way of the dodo bird. That’s why I [...]
Tags: download music, sheet music
Since I’ve been gone so much the last few months, the junk mail has really piled up in the basket next to my desk. We toss the miscellaneous stuff in there with the expectation we’ll look through it on the weekends in case there’s something of interest in the myriad advertisements. Yesterday, I skimmed the [...]
Tags: consumerism, eyeglasses, fashion glasses
This morning I was reading about the changing grocery shopping habits in the economic downsizing of America.
Apparently, more people are shopping in the grocery section of Walmart rather than in the Krogers, Safeways, and Whole Foods of the nation. Since there’s a general opinion that fresh produce purchased at Whole Foods is superior to that [...]
Tags: Consumer Smarts, grocery shopping, walmart, whole foods
Private number plates in the UK are so popular that auctions are held each year where excited bidders can find the combo of numbers they want. In the past year, an auction for the coveted 1000 number plate saw the winning bidder pay 80,000 pounds for that number plate.
Private number plates or personalized plates, as [...]
Tags: business, consumerism, personal license plates
Since we’re in the first month of the new quarter, and the new year, it’s a good time to review your business goals. If you’ve thought about starting a website or making changes to an existing website, now is the perfect time to research web hosting.
Review Your Service
If you already have a website, has your [...]
Tags: Internet Dynamics, web host, web hosting
I’ve wanted all week to tell you about an article I read in my local newspaper, but it’s been a busy week at the Reeves hacienda with lots of doctor appointments for my daughter. Houston is a big town, and it seems as if the doctors we must consult are at the opposite end from [...]
Tags: cadmium, chinese manufacturers, consumer caution, tainted jewelry
Promotion. Publicity. Public Relations. Those three are sometimes used interchangeably, but promotion is really the building built on the foundation of the other two.Do you know the difference between publicity and public relations? If you have an Internet business, then you darn well need to know the difference because then you’ll know how to drive [...]
Tags: business, internet presence, online marketing, promotion, public relations, publicity
A few weeks ago I was reading the financial advice column in the business section of my local newspaper. The subject was Annuities. I realized I didn’t know very much about this. Like most people, I think of annuities as some kind of retirement investment.
Unlike most people, I immediately started researching the subject and found [...]
Tags: annuities, investment, Retirement
Posted by Joan Reeves on Jan 7, 2010 in
Consumer Smarts,
My Literary License,
Technology
Here’s some advice for small business owners: think big. If you adopt the habits of big business, you improve your chance of success. Big businesses do a lot of online marketing. So you should you, and small business internet marketing is probably easier than you think.
Learn From The Pros
If you’re scratching your head and wondering [...]
Tags: online marketing, small business