Businessavante commented on the following stories on BizSugar
What Journalists Really Want from Your Press Release
"Funny, isn't it, Derbhile - spammers always want us to think their garbage or their push-selling is "news", or "newsworthy", or that their product description is somehow "instructive" (when it's just a brochure). No one seeing it is that stupid - when will they get the message. (Never) Duncan"Investors have lost confidence in politicians - Have you?
"Incisive, Catarina. It's hard to lose confidence when so little was there to begin with. I particularly like your analogy of drunk drivers policing the streets being akin to the credit rating agencies being allowed to rate U.S. credit (since they helped cause all of it). Duncan"I must have been on Prozac when I agreed to present – 7 Steps to Managing Presentation Nerves
"Hi Kathy. I think I get where you're coming from (i.e. trying to be funny rather than insensitive), but things like serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (Prozac), Tourettes syndrome, and incontinence are real problems (or solutions in the case of the SRI) that people who suffer from them must in reality deal with on a daily basis. In the old days, fat jokes & ethnic humor were "in", too. The advice was very good. Duncan Duncan"Groupon doubles users, will drop controversial metric
"Hi Rico. My question is, since they've already tried this scheme & been called-out for it, what other fancy book keeping schemes are they already into (or hatching) that either omit pertinent information, or add-on non-existent things (like what Enron did so well)? Duncan"Subscribe
A Little Surprise On My Google Pagerank
"Hi Lye. I've read that they say it's only 1 of over 200 things they take into account - we shouldn't be obsessed with it. But like you said, if they really believed that, they'd scrap it. Except - the people might not have that incessant reminder that Google is always watching, always ranking, always controlling everyone's business' destiny through the wonders of search. Duncan"