I was catching up on my blog reading this morning and bumped into this video on Practical Manifestations blog. This video is a brief look into the life of a 21 year old Chinese woman who works in a WalMart factory in China. She works long days for less than $3.00 a day for at [...]
Archive of posts filed under the economy category.
The World is Moving Astronomically Fast – It’s Not Your Imagination
Staggering numbers that are mind-boggling to comprehend. If you feel like the speed of technological changes is leaving you behind, these numbers show why it’s nearly impossible to keep up. By the way, these numbers are outdated. I wonder what they would be today?
Not a Crock At All – Crocs Rock
I’m not the type of person that is up to date with all of the trends but I am way behind the curve on this one. CROCS! Yes, the ugly shoes that everyone was wearing starting about 10 years ago. This trend (and many others) just flew by me. Until now. A few weeks ago I read [...]
Amazon Out of Stock Products List – An Eye-Opener
Recently Amazon has started sending me a weekly email listing many of the top-selling books that are currently out of stock. In case you’re new to this blog, I sell products, mostly books, on Amazon.com and have done so for about five years. The email has 50 titles that tell me, as a bookseller, what [...]
One Sweet Deal But For New Customers Only
And what a sweet deal it was. Our local newspaper called us last weekend to offer us their “One Sweet Deal” promotion. One full year of seven day per week home delivery of the newspaper for $108.90. The caller also told my husband that the subscription price would be going up on Monday for everyone and we could lock [...]
Marketing Genius in a Rural Country Store
Hubby and I went for a spur-of-the-moment drive Sunday that took us south to Cooperstown, New York, “The Home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.” Did our day include anything baseball-related? No, silly… We’re not baseball fans. We like free food so much more. Our stop included a walk-through of the Fly Creek Cider Mill [...]
