Preserving Cash For Your Business

Original: Preserving Cash For Your Business


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If you're running a small business today and aren't thinking about how to tighten your belt, you are surely in rarefied company. But if you're like the rest of us, you're scrambling to cover expenses, pay bills and make payroll.

Take a look at all of your expenses going out in such things as insurance and yearly contracts. Instead of just simply renewing these contracts assuming they are still valid, take a look and see where there can be a change made that will save you some money.

You may have several service contracts that you don’t really need anymore. Your insurance policy may not reflect the current years prices and should be changed accordingly. Invite your insurance agent to visit your business once a year to re-evaluate your policy.

OpenForum suggests reviewing your current medical insurance plan and see where a few changes could be made that will definitely save you some money. There may be some medical add ins that you can trim off.

Dallas stop yields 100 pounds of pot in casket

Original: Dallas stop yields 100 pounds of pot in casket

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-06-30 09:58.

Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies

Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.

DALLAS — A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat beat violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under the casket's cover and pillow.

Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse (JAN'-see) told said the van turned up during surveillance on a suspected drug house. Police stopped the van in Mesquite, after noticing Crock not wearing a seat belt. Officers also said he allegedly ran a red light and did an improper lane change.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the casket in the van.

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Online shopping meets curbside pickup at French E.Leclerc

Original: Online shopping meets curbside pickup at French E.Leclerc

Earlier this year we wrote about Sears' MyGofer experiment blending online shopping with curbside pickup, and recently one of our spotters alerted us to a like-minded effort that's already well underway across the ocean. At French hypermarket chain E.Leclerc, customers can order online and have their purchases loaded into their car two hours later at no extra charge.

Leclerc's initiative began in late 2007, when it opened its first Express Drive in Roques sur Garonne near Toulouse. With a selection of nearly 3,000 available products, customers then could place their orders online—or via touch terminals in the local Leclerc store or parking lot—and then go to a curbside pickup area to have it loaded into their trunk. Today, many more products are available through the service—including groceries, fresh produce and frozen goods—for curbside loading at more than 20 Leclerc stores. The prices of all products ordered via Express Drive are the same as those in-store; customers simply arrive at their local store two hours after they place and pay for their order online, and it will be loaded into their trunk free of charge. A standard shopping list can even be saved online to speed ordering on subsequent visits.

After years of separation of online and off, it's a sign of maturation that retail is beginning to blur those lines, blending the best of both worlds. The same is happening in consumers' own lives too, of course, so they increasingly expect it everywhere. Any company hoping to win their business had better deliver! ;-)

Website: www.expressdrive.fr
Contact: www.e-leclerc.com/c2k/portail/conso/plus_services/service_conso/plus_services_contact.asp

Spotted by: Florent Lesauvage

Dallas stop yields 100 pounds of pot in casket

Original: Dallas stop yields 100 pounds of pot in casket

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-06-30 09:58.

Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies

Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.

DALLAS — A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat beat violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under the casket's cover and pillow.

Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse (JAN'-see) told said the van turned up during surveillance on a suspected drug house. Police stopped the van in Mesquite, after noticing Crock not wearing a seat belt. Officers also said he allegedly ran a red light and did an improper lane change.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the casket in the van.

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What Partners Not To Choose For Your Start-Up

Original: What Partners Not To Choose For Your Start-Up


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When making the decision to take on a partner for your start-up, one needs to remember to choose wisely. This person should be considered as your right hand man, someone that you will be involved with for the long hall. I recently read an article on Entrepreneur.com that gives some examples of the people to stay away from when choosing your partner that i couldn’t agree with more.

Mr. College buddy is never a good choice for several reasons. Remember his behavior in college? Unless he’s made a drastic transformation i wouldn’t suggest choosing him. He also is the one who is most likely going to forward you his new expensive address so you can mail his 50% to him every month.

Mr. Spender can't possibly survive without a six-figure salary, lavish office and an in-house cigar roller. Price is no object when it comes to entertaining a client or flying first class.

Mr. Vacation is another one pretty similar to Mr. College buddy, they are NEVER around especially when you need them the most. Mr. Personal issues, this is the guy who has a personal reason and or excuse for everything in the book. He has a built in way out of everything that you need him to do for the company.

Bumper stickers recruit Twitter followers in traffic

Original: Bumper stickers recruit Twitter followers in traffic

If a Twitter user tweets, but no one is following them, do they really tweet at all? Aiming to make such philosophical gymnastics less necessary, Tweet My Bumper helps Twitterers recruit new followers by targeting one of life's few remaining captive audiences: drivers in traffic.

Twitterers seeking followers need only visit Tweet My Bumper, enter their Twitter user name along with the usual other basic information, and Tweet My Bumper will print and ship them a bumper sticker that shows their Twitter name along with the tag line, "Follow me in traffic. Follow me on Twitter." A standard bumper sticker—which also shows the Tweet My Bumper URL—is priced at USD 5; without the promotional URL it costs USD 6.

Offroad, Twitter users already have StickyTwits; now, courtesy of BlakeMakes.com's Blake Killian, Tweet My Bumper makes the most of onroad audiences as well. It's all part of the OFF=ON melding of the offline and online worlds. What can *your* brand do to include, support and further the efforts of the Twittering masses? ;-) (Related: Food blogger turned intermediary and purveyor.)

Website: www.tweetmybumper.com
Contact: www.tweetmybumper.com/contact.htm — @tweetmybumper

Dallas stop yields 100 pounds of pot in casket

Original: Dallas stop yields 100 pounds of pot in casket

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-06-30 09:58.

Posted in: Statistics And Other Lies

Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.

DALLAS — A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat beat violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under the casket's cover and pillow.

Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse (JAN'-see) told said the van turned up during surveillance on a suspected drug house. Police stopped the van in Mesquite, after noticing Crock not wearing a seat belt. Officers also said he allegedly ran a red light and did an improper lane change.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the casket in the van.

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