What’s your greatest fear? Speaking in front of a 1000 employees? Telling CNBC you missed your quarterly numbers? How about planning a birthday party for 15 screaming 9 year olds? Look I can’t help you with the first 2, but the last one? Problem solved. This is Game Truck! It’s a 35’ trailer filled with…
I just heard the men’s personal care and grooming market will hit $33 billion in sales by 2015. Smart companies are leveraging into that trend…I found a salon doing just that and I thought we’d check it out together. This is the Dean Anthony salon in Long Beach California, where they’re doing lots of little…
Hi, this is Pat Cashman for the Relevant Report. Remember back in the 70’s and 80’s when Kodak put on those wonderful TV commercials? You know, the ones filled with emotion and memories that almost made you cry? They weren’t really about [selling] film at all? But in 1975, one of the Kodak engineers came…
So I buy a new iPhone. On that very same day while on a bike ride, my headset gets caught in my spinning spokes and jerks the phone from it’s holder, sending my new phone skidding 30 feet face down on the concrete. The phone was not in a case, it was on backorderd order…
Do you want to remain relevant for the next 50 years? Then take a few lessons from the band, The Beatles. The Beatles were international superstarts but they only had a TEN year career. They broke up in 1970…Yet in 2006 – almost 40 years later – they had THE top selling album of the…
Hey, Ross Shafer here. What does your car’s problem SMELL LIKE? Has anyone every asked you that before? I did a program for Autozone and found out that is one of their first questions. Right. If you have a problem with your vehicle, the technicians at Autozone ask you questions like “what does it smell…
How do you get ahead at a big company? Are the odds too high to be the top dog? If that’s what you think I’ve got something inspiring for you. I was the Keynote speaker at a recent Verizon Wireless meeting in Newark, NJ where an impressive woman spoke before I went on. Her name…
The average Facebook and Twitter users have hundreds of friends and followers and get hundreds, even thousands, of updates each day. If you’re a small business trying to get customers’ attention, how can you stand out? Try sending customers a handwritten note. That’s what DuO, a small clothing boutique in Austin, TX, does and it’s…
Ever buy something from a store and try to take it back and they won’t let you? A while back I bought new living room furniture from a store called Room & Board. It gets delivered right on time (December 18) and I couldn’t be more disappointed. All my fault, the couch I bought looked…
Michael Burger here. Just got back from a trip to Costco. Picked up a jar of Kirkland brand chocolate covered almonds. Why is this relevant? Jim Sinegal, the founder of Costco discovered by changing the shape of the round nut containers…to square nut containers, he could squeeze more jars on the pallet. Genius! By getting…