Yesterday’s astounding bid to pay $2.1 million to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett is staggering. Yet, the Chinese investment fund manager, Zhao Danyang, of the Hong-Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund will most likely find it to be one of his best investments.

Suddenly, everyone (more…)

WWP advertising agencies are working with Yahoo to develop a proprietary advertising media trading platform that will take advantage of Yahoo’s (more…)

Here are a dozen sales and marketing principles that, when used regularly, will provide you with that all-important edge in the marketplace.

• Great salespeople somehow deliver the bad news as palatally as they deliver the goods news.
• They openly admit what they don’t know, and make darn sure they learn it.
• Top salespeople are irresistible to (more…)

Contents in the May 20, 2008 Tuesday Barter Report, published by BarterNews magazine, include the following (more…)

A survey by New York-based mutual-fund company Scudder, Stevens & Clark confirms that baby-boomers are pessimistic about their ability to achieve a secure retirement. And most agree they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to saving and investing money.

The mutual-fund company concludes that their industry has done a thorough job of scaring Americans to death…and instead of taking action…a large portion of this generation is just putting up their hands and saying they can’t do (more…)

Cicero was one of the most versatile minds of Roman culture. He was an impressive orator and successful lawyer and felt his political career his most important achievement. Today he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings.

I found these words (habits to avoid) from Cicero—over 2000 Years ago most applicable even now, twenty centuries (more…)

If you’ve had the misfortune of going to the hospital regularly in the last several years you have experienced the aggrevation of filing out basic health information forms, repeatedly, every time you checked in. And I’m sure you thought, “Why isn’t this information computerized and available online?” Well, those days will be here, maybe sooner than we think. Because Google is on the move…

Google today unveiled a pilot program that enables people to store and share information about their medical conditions online.

The initiative, available to up to (more…)

The top issue in the 2008 election, based on a poll of women gathered last week at the “How She Will Decide” forum hosted by AARP and iVillage…is the economy.

In addition to the economy, other top issues identified by the approximately 200 audience members included the (more…)

In the summer Martha’s Vineyard population is five times what it is in the winter. And the residents take on a different lifestyle in the off-season too.

Everyone on the island embraces a looser, island-grown style of bartering. To (more…)

Dan Danner, executive vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, issued the following statement in reaction to the economic stimulus package deal reached today:

“Over the past several weeks, NFIB has worked with Members of Congress and the White House to ensure that small businesses would be a primary focus as Congress moves forward with an economic stimulus plan. We are very pleased that the deal announced (more…)