Category Archives: Business

Five people I’d like to meet

This week BizTimes.com ran an article about the “10 People who are Changing Milwaukee” and it started me thinking about the various people I’d like to meet. Before creating my list, I set a few basic ground rules: Unlike the BizTimes … Read the rest of this entry

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The Best Care in the Air

As a long-time Midwest Airlines customer, it was very very mixed feelings that I watched yesterday’s press conference announcing that the Midwest name is going away (to be assimilated into the Frontier Airlines brand). The reality is that Midwest brand didn’t disappear with yesterday’s press conference ... it’s been gone (with the exception of the chocolate chip cookies) for many years. Read the rest of this entry

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Tagged — Web 2.0 for Phishers?

I received an email this evening from an old work colleague telling me she had posted photos for me on a social networking site called Tagged1. The email struck me as just a touch strange, but couldn’t place my finger … Read the rest of this entry

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Marketing your blockbuster product or service

New from Kevin on the Creatonomy Blog: The Hollywood studios have become masters of successful marketing. Even in a bad economic environment, they create extensive campaigns that reach prospective customers in almost every facet of their lives. (And most importantly, … Read the rest of this entry

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Two new blogs of note

During the past week, a couple of promising new blogs were launched by some prominent Milwaukeans. Meg McKenna, co-founder of the successful MilwaukeeMoms.com, has started City on the Lake. McKenna has been a resident of both Chicagoland (she grew up … Read the rest of this entry

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