Links Worth Reading
Gratitude Through the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old
This a heartwarming and tearful reminder about the importance of gratitude from a formerly homeless 12-year-old boy from Sierra Leone. Abraham, who with his blood brother were adopted lives with his new family in the US. Abraham experienced his first ever birthday cake, a concept which he was not familiar and offers an original point […]
Finding Your Niche: Book Brochure
Download the brochure by clicking the link below. Finding Your Niche Brochure 6×9 October 2022
How to Write About Awful Food Service
Now available. And a recent article on an odd profiling incident in wine country and a common-sense solution is referenced with a link to Medium at the end of this post. The cover below is the multi-purpose 96-page, 6×9 guide referenced in the previous post for angry patrons and aspiring food service writers. The book’s […]
Restaurant Discrimination or Bad Service: The Difference
Regardless of race, color, or creed, restaurant diners experience lousy service. Poor customer service is defined, in part, as unmet customer expectations. Or what the customer expected was not received. When a diner believes bad service is discriminatory, other people may disagree. Terrible customer service may only indicate an establishment’s chaotic business management. How patrons […]
Naming a New Business Is No Joke
Comedian and Family Feud host, Steve Harvey, dumbfounded by the name of a contestant’s new startup. Harvey uses humor to tell the contestant that the name is a confusing choice. The exchange garnered a lot of laughter. But contestant Jesse Lehrman explained she loves animals, especially moose, and altered the word anonymous to name her […]
Harlem Globetrotters Moving Company
GEICO, first known as The Government Employee’s Insurance Company, was started by Leo and Lillian Goodwin during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Today, GEICO is famous for its award-winning Gecko mascot, and a series of humor-filled commercials on TV and radio. In the current ad, a couple hires the wrong moving company. And a […]
Burros Ate It All Up
After leaving the military in the 1940s, E. Joseph Cossman had a family to support but little money. He first got the idea to buy and sell soap to war-torn European countries. No easy feat. Cossman’s edge-of-the-seat account appeared in his classic book How I Made a Million Dollars in Mail Order. And he went […]
Racial Protests Exposed Costly Trademark Dispute For Solo Creator
Regardless of race, the lawsuit described below likely caused many solos, small, new, and established trademark owners to check their marks because the issue of what caused the suit in the first place can happen in any industry. “Band Lady A versus Singer Lady A: How racial protest exposed a costly slip-up by artists in […]
Issac Harte: Funny Tutorial by Teen Fact Checker
This laugh-out-loud video hosted by Issac Harte is educational and entertaining. And it underscores the serious subject of media literacy and how to evaluate information online. Topics such as fact-checking tools and a reminder the internet is fair game for bogus videos and information and how to spot real from phony. Poynter.org is a resource […]
Famous Black Inventors: How Much Do You Know?
Updated 11/1/ 2024 According to Professor Randall Robinson, they trot out the story of George Washington Carver and his peanut discovery every February. And all the many, many, many things about the peanut discovery. However, there are an untold number of other Black inventors who are not mentioned. Focusing on George Washington Carver solely gives […]