If you’re just joining us, this is the latest post in an intermittent series on Native Americans whose names may be familiar, especially to those from the American Midwest, but whose stories most probably are not. Traditional history curricula have often relegated these individuals, their influence, and their accomplishments to afterthought, but commercial and place [...]
Archive | November, 2010
Adventures in Customer Service: Micro Center
I’m a fan of Geoffrey James’ blog, Sales Machine on BNET, the CBS interactive network. Today’s post, How to Completely Blow an Easy Sale, gives us the line-by-line of his encounter with a salesperson whose technique James describes as “almost cosmically inept.” Unfortunately, even in a challenged economy, when you’d think salespeople would be studying up on [...]
European Christmas Markets on the Bucket List
Note: This is an expanded version of an item in our November newsletter. A recent Facebook exchange with a dear young German friend on the Ludwigsburger Weihnachtsmarkt (and how she has grown up since we visited these storybook castle gardens with her and her family in 2002!) prompted a remark from another friend that a [...]
What the Heck is Going On Here?
A longtime friend who receives our newsletter* recently emailed: Hey Bets! What’s up? OK, you need to explain to me what the heck is going on with you!! What exactly is your business? … and since I’m apparently so far behind in cyberspace, I’m trying to understand what this news letter is all about — [...]
Tecumseh – Courageous Warrior and Statesman
If you receive our newsletter (and if you don’t, we’d love to send it to you; click here to subscribe), you know that we announced an intermittent series on less prominent Native Americans who are immortalized in the Midwest by places named after them. It seems a long time since I studied Michigan history in the [...]
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