For a Glimpse Of The Future, Try Reading A 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Tom Persky’s company, floppydisk.com, sells about 250,000 of the 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch square plastic storage cards each year. It has an inventory of about 1 million disks, many of which Persky acquired from competing companies as they went out of business. And he has no plans to restock them as they’re sold. “We stayed in the business through the good times of the floppy disk business, when it was a very common way to store media, through the trough of what we have now of people not using it very much at all,” Persky says. That's not to say floppy disks aren't still his mainstay. Any remaining modern demand for the once-ubiquitous floppy is driven by machines still made with old data inputs. The first floppy disks, introduced by IBM in 1971, were 8-inches big. The problem with digital storage--as the hundreds of people who ship Persky their floppy disks each year are finding out--is that it requires active upkeep. Persky’s data recovery methods are low-tech.
The #1 Career Mistake Capable People Make Cartoons on matchbooks I stopped into the MARVA matchbook club meeting yesterday to hand off some old matchbooks (as you know, I love ephemera) and the group was very welcoming. They usually have piles they trade amongst themselves as everyone has to specialize. I found a few of cartoon interest: 3 hillbilly gag cartoons, probably from the 1940s or early 1950s, on matchbook covers. "Won't Be Long Now" hillbilly cartoon gag on matchbook cover. A cricket that looks a lot like Disney's Jiminy on a "Li'l Cricket Food Stores" matchbook cover. Matchbook ad for Art Instruction, Inc, the school that Charles Schulz attended (via correspondence) and taught at before Peanuts. Interior of matchbook ad for Art Instruction, Inc, the school that Charles Schulz attended (via correspondence) and taught at before Peanuts. Cartoon matchbook spotlighting French cartoonist. ANNÉE DE L'ENFANCE [aka, Année internationale de l’enfant : 1979] Translation by Portugese comics scholar Leo de Sa:
Five top tips to starting a successful business Ambassadors of Goodwill: Vintage Matchbook Advertising and Design I picked up this salesman’s catalog for the Mercury Match Corporation of Zanesville, Ohio, about 25 years ago at the big antique show in Brimfield, Massachusetts. I remember the purchase vividly—I was over the moon, but tried to act all cool as I attempted to barter the price down from $35 to the far more reasonable $25 I had in mind. But I knew that I’d have paid $50 or more if I had to; anything to get my hands on Advertise with Mercury Union Label Book Matches. “Every time you pass out a Book of Matches,” the Book Matches Work page reads, “you are sending out an ambassador of goodwill directed to the very people you want to reach.” Related Articles: No Related Posts Found
Jobs you may be interested in: Pharmacist - tortoise789 - Gmail How Patagonia Makes More Money By Trying To Make Less It’s holiday season and retailers are gearing up with every technique possible to maximize revenue for the next few weeks. Some retailers will earn more during the holiday shopping season than in the previous months combined, and already this year’s Black Friday online sales set a record by topping $1 billion for the first time, according to comScore. Sales for Cyber Monday were expected to exceed $1.5 billion, another record. But in the midst of this shopping mania, one prominent retailer took a different approach. Instead of blasting sales prices and urging consumers to load up their virtual shopping carts, Patagonia encourages consumers to buy less by promoting its Common Threads Initiative on its home page, advocating sustainability. This holiday campaign follows last year’s groundbreaking advertising strategy featuring an ad in the New York Times on Black Friday saying “Don’t Buy This Jacket.” That would be an easy pursuit if Patagonia didn’t care about running a great business.
12 Tips to Ace the Phone Interview | Jobungo Resources Posted by Matthew Gottula | Filed in Articles, Interviews Hello! A phone interview is very different (and more nerve-wracking) than a casual phone call. Do you find your job search is getting a little ‘hung up’? Here are 12 tips to help you ace the phone interview. A telephone interview is often the first step of the hiring process after you submit your resume. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Can you hear me now? Tags: ace, career, employer, employment, interview, job, jobs, phone, telephone, work
The Most Egregiously Bad Product Placement You'll Ever See--And How To Do It Right As viewers DVR through commercials, put themselves on "do not call" lists, and set their browsers to limit tracking, product placement (placing a product into a TV series or movie) has become an increasingly popular way for brands to increase awareness, preference, and loyalty. How popular? American Idol alone had 577 placements in 39 episodes in 2011. Generally a brand has to pay a pretty penny to get on popular shows and in movies. Coke, for instance, has been featured on American Idol since the beginning of the show. An important point here to take away is the long-term partnership between Coke and Idol. 2) Don't just be in show; shoot for plot integration. One example of good integration is Target's product placement in the "Express Christmas" episode of Modern Family. 3) Don't overdo it.Here's a brand that did. 4) Don't get lost in the crowd. 5) Be so great you get placed for free. 7) Don't get dissed. 8) Track and measure. Want more marketing insight?