The Ad Conceptor

Looking for a free advertising agency? Ad Conceptor’s free advertisement creator works quite well for instant advertisements.

Your Credit Score

From Your Credit Guide, under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) consumers can now request and obtain a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies. For residents of the North East states, AnnualCreditReport.com is the only authorized site that provides consumers with the secure means to order free credit reports from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

Your Credit Guide

One of my friends is trying to put together the ultimate site on credit. A site that provides resources, credit card applications and a whole peer review system for credit cards. It’s definitely work in progress but he’s hopeful that the site will provide the necessary resources to help with establishing credit, checking credit, living without credit and even applying for credit. If you have a second, please stop by Your Credit Guide and do send in suggestions and feedback on how to improve the site.

Marketing Management by Philip Kotler

It’s been almost two years since I last wrote an essay based exam. I need to dig out those trusty pens and pencils and exercise my wrists to prepare for this 3 hour exam. When will schools stop requiring students to write out essays for an exam? How about an open book exam since life is an open book? Even better switch to Tablet PCs like the Empire High School in Arizona, and perhaps students may even enjoy writing an exam. Before you hit me with ‘Back in my days … ‘ rest assured that all of this could just be my lazy mind talking since I’m nowhere close to starting or finishing catch up reading on 11 chapters. Enough whining, back to reading Marketing Management by Philip Kotler.

Aquisitions …

GameStop and Electronics Boutique, Macromedia and Adobe … Who’s next?

How to attain profitablity

The slew of recent settlements appears to be paving the way for court room financial quarters. Infact, with Microsoft settling most of the pending law suits, a number of companies have managed to bounce back into profitable quarters.

For example, does this equation hold true for Gateway’s recent $150 million antitrust settlement with Microsoft?

Gateway/ EMachines Quarterly Revenue – Cost of Goods Sold – Operating Expenses + 150/16 = Profitable Quarter

Is Symantec Growing Too Fast?

Back in July 2004, I posted a blog on how I thought that Symantec was reaching a point of omnipresence in the technology market. With the recent merger with Veritas Software, Symantec has definitely grown a tad larger. Are customers suffering as a result of this?

Charles Cooper’s recent experience with support from Symantec may be a sign of what happens when you’re growing faster than the number of customers you can actually satisfy. In my opinion without customer satisfaction you’re looking at imminent losses in market share. I guess outsourcing support to India doesn’t always result in lower costs to the consumer.

Destroy the Enterprise

Chapter 2 of Tom Peter’s book titled Re-Imagine, introduces the concept of the destruction imperative. In this chapter, Tom argues that the American economy is driven by destroying jobs in old large enterprises and rebuilding new jobs in novell ventures.