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At the office, I’m having to define “Yield Management” as a business model. I found a few good resources on the web by searching Google, and this Google Answer was a big help. I found a lot of different definintions, and this is the simplest one I could find: Yield Management is extracting the maximum [...]

Good advice: “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

Has anyone seen BugMeNot.com? Adrian wrote about it a month ago, so I know I’m not dreaming that it existed. I even used it to get into a few registration-only websites, but it totally disappeared a couple of days ago, and now looks like this: Any thoughts on what’s up?

This is how I look at the profession of sales and sales people and life in general: Everyone on this planet is a sales person. I firmly believe that this world is driven forward by the actions of good sales people, selling their product, be that product themselves, their ideas, or a tangible product or [...]

I just wanted to point out how funny it was to watch K-Mart commercials when you live in a market where there are no K-Marts anymore. It’s just funny. About a year ago K-Mart pulled completely out of Austin, TX. The closest K-Mart to my house is 1 hour and 20 minutes away. Why are [...]

Wow! Scott Johnson (of feedster.com, fuzzyblog, and other infamous times and places) is engaged to Shelley Johnston. What great news! Congrats Scott.

Today, I swung a golf club for the first time in my life. A buddy of mine, Kevin, and I met at the Hank Hankey Golf Ranch of Austin tonight. Kevin asked me earlier in the day if I golfed, to which I replied “no” and he asked me to hit the driving range with [...]

I did it. I cleaned out my Outlook Inbox today (well mostly). (Back in April I had 700+ emails in my inbox.) I’m now down to 78 email messages in my inbox, all of them requiring some sort of follow up or action from me. A few from more than 30 days ago, but most [...]