Fresh Roasted Coffee now in Blends
He also announced that Hanover has two new coffee blends: The Hanover Blend and Hanover Dark. Apparently these are some shit hot coffee blends so you better order before I get all of it!
Starting next week you can get this delivered to wherever you might be. So go ahead and get some!
While watching Netflix I saw a documentary called ‘I Like Killing Flies’ about Shopsin’s restaurant, or old one, in NYC. Kenny immediately became my hero and upon reading the wikipedia page for the film I discovered that he wrote a book a few years back. Purchase made on Amazon and 15 minutes later I was reading the best cook book I have ever seen. Forget cookbook though cause even though you can learn about 200 recipes from this one volume they can easily permutate into hundreds more.
Kenny has great wit and his philosophy on life is what I want to hear more of: we are not here to slave for each other, we are here to hang out and be nice when thats called for and enjoy company. While I am pretty sure I would be thrown out of Shopsin’s before even being seated, I am a bit of a foodie, I would enjoy every moment of it.
Watch my review and if you don’t have a seizure let me know what you think:
Google announced their latest attempt to not be so 2003 today and called it +1. Personally I think Google needs to hire me for their marketing efforts. Watch the video and let me know what you think.
Working without an office has its pluses and minuses. Basically Roger is being a puss.
Get back to work.
Great read about the current economic and political conversations regarding Debt and Taxes. I dont like giving the gubnerment my cash but I am more not interested in having food riots and shit.
I loves me some RSS feeds. Being able to skip through headlines without any cumbersome graphics to slow things down is what I need. Google Reader is the RSS reader of the day. Its fast and easy to use. With Reeder on my iPhone and iPad and soon on my Mac I can look through a lot of material very quickly and identify topics of interest for me or my clients.
One glaring issue I have with Google Reader however is how it makes suggestions. When you find a new RSS feed that you want to add to reader you see this:
Google Reader gets Suggestions Wrong
Now dont get me wrong I love me some suggestions and Google is really good at suggesting relevant feeds. The problem is that the suggestions show up before I have finalized the subscription to the original feed that I wanted. Once I click on the Subscribe button the suggestions no longer appear here. Instead you have to click on the Feed Settings button and mouse over More Like This to see this:
Google Reader Suggestions are too hidden
Once again I appreciate Google making these suggestions, but they are way too hidden for most users. Make this more visible please Google. I suggest showing them right after I Subscribe to a feed and then occasionally once a month or so.
I wasn’t necessarily looking for this but our friends at Consumerist were nice enough to give me a link:
Interactive: Which Banks Got Emergency Loans from the Fed During the Financial Meltdown?.
What do you think? Does it matter if you bailed out your own bank? Has their service gotten any better to show you their thanks?
If this doesn’t make you laugh at Libertarians I am not sure what will.
thanks electrospray
It never ceases to amaze me how bad salespeople are at their jobs. To be fair the vast majority of them are setup for failure due to a number of things: improper training, a terrible product, poor pricing for their market, and unreasonable expectations created by their marketing people.
Recently I was shopping around for a service to help one of my clients. I called 3 companies and had a great experience with all of them. I was given the information I was looking for and made sure I could follow up with that same person once my client made their decision before getting off the phone.
When I called the 3rd company everything changed. The first thing the representative told me was that before they gave me any pricing I would have to give them something. In this case that something was my clients information. I was told that this would prevent them from getting ‘shopped’. I was taken quite aback by this for a few reasons:
Normally I would proceed with the 3rd step but the attitude that this salesperson gave me told me something else:
So for all salespeople out there and all your super duper training and neat presentations you should remember a few things:
Guess what? You are going to be shopped, thats why they call it shopping. Get used to it. If your service is legit then you should be fine with giving out information. Within 4 sentences with this salesperson every aspect of relationship building was gone and I was fuming, so I hung up the phone and recommended their competitors. Oh and this wasn’t a $50 sale it was for $5000.
Be nice.
