Archive For The “Business Profiles” Category
Did you create a Google+ account? Have you logged in since? I just logged in the other day. It seems like only a few people are posting anything, and half of them are Google employees.
I was scheduled to have arthroscopic shoulder surgery today, to repair the anterior labrum tear from my dislocation this spring. But I’m at home instead, due to a fascinating series of failures to answer my one simple question: “How much will this cost?” In my mind, for a non-emergency procedure, that seems like a completely [...]
If you’ve shopped online at all in the past 4 years, you’re probably familiar with RetailMeNot.com. The online coupon aggregator generates millions of page views each month and enjoys top Google ranking for almost every “_______ coupon” query. This is a company that literally prints money — an estimated $30 million in 2010. Most of [...]
If you’ve shopped at Safeway any time in the last few years, you’ve probably been asked to make a donation to some charity when you checked out. Some shoppers get really offended by this, but each year Safeway raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and a host of other causes. In 2009, their [...]
Here’s an update on my experiment with peer-to-peer lending with Prosper.com. The micro-loans have been active for 6 months, so it’s a good time to review the performance. My Prosper numbers: Initial investment: $5000 Interest payments received: $393.18 Charge-offs: $25 Net Gain (interest minus charge-offs): $368.18 Approximate annualized rate of return: 14.7% I’m pretty happy [...]
“Experiencing higher than normal call volume.” I doubt it. I think it’s far more likely you laid off customer support personnel in the recession and don’t have the workforce to handle customers any more. If you are frequently “experiencing higher than normal call volume,” I’ll let you in a little secret: that’s the new “normal,” [...]
