Whatever I Feel Like Writing About

It’s just a marketing gimmick.

There’s an autoblog article here that discusses how some buyers are still swayed by the “buy American” marketing gimmick.

Foreign auto companies contribute too.

For the consumer, to buy American is an illusion. People think that they are supporting the economy, their own country when the fact is more and more, Read more…

Let’s say you own a business and either you or one of your employees makes a mistake.

Here’s an example from Yelp, where a business has made a mistake, but makes it up quickly to it’s customer.

“Upon the advice of the 40 Yelpers who had reviewed Carlos Exclusive Auto Service, I booked my car for a 30,000 service. The job went well – it was ready on time and at a reasonable cost. BUT … fast forward a day. I drove to San Jose and smelled burning oil. A quick look under the car tells me I have an oil leak. Filled it up with 3 quarts and it dripped straight through. Read more…

I was reading about this about how to start a vending machine business.

Basically, what you do is you go on either Craigslist or Ebay and you start small, buying one or a few machines at time and cold call to see if people will let you put it on their space.

It’s a pretty easy way to make a little bit of change on the side, Read more…

They managed to fit 21 people over 4’11 into a Mini Cooper, which is downright INSANE. I thought it would be tough to fit 6 people in there but uhm… they… managed to do a bit more than that.

You can read about it here: Autoblog