Memorial Day Sales Event
I enjoyed the long Memorial Day weekend and, even though it’s Wednesday, I’m still trying to get back into the swing of things at work. Decompressing from getting caught up on email, I watched some TV last night and couldn’t help but to notice all of the (mostly car) commercials telling me not to miss [...]
Applebees UGC
I know that everyone’s trying user generated content (UGC) nowadays, but the latest attempt by Applebees left me shaking my head. How many times do you find yourself at Applebees and someone decides to bust out their video camera? It’s not something that probably happens often enough that it deserves this campaign. Perhaps Applebees is [...]
Brewed a Dunkelweizen
This weekend I brewed a very wheaty wheat beer. It’s my first use of my new turkey fryer (my wife wanted me out of the kitchen and it allows me to do full boils). Here’s the recipe… .5 lbs of Briess Dextrine grains .5 lbs of cracked wheat Steeped and brought 6.5 gallons of water [...]
St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival
This past weekend I went to the St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival (well, in St. Louis, obviously). There were 8 breweries (Alandale Brewing Company, Anheuser-Busch, Schlafly, GriesedieckBros. Brewing, Augusta Brewing Co., O’Fallon Brewery, Square One Brewery, and Morgan Street Brewery), with over 60 beers to sample. Unfortunately, I was only able to try about half [...]
Recruiting Quality Talent
Random thought… If your company says it’s interested in recruiting quality talent, does that mean you should be worried? When it comes to things like sales, they say it’s always easier to keep a good customer than it is to get anew one… shouldn’t companies be focused on retaining quality talent, or maybe they’re just [...]