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Unexpected Wisdom: The Drunk on North Avenue
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
I grew up on North Avenue, a 4-lane street cutting East-West across the middle of Chicago. My folks owned a clothing store there and our family lived upstairs. It was 1961 and I was 9 ...
Create a Resource Website for Your Company
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
As small business grows, it accumulates forms, lists, procedures and other resources which become the backbone of the company's functioning. Over time, these important documents become scattered and soon people begin asking, "Is this the ...
Suddenly... Condensation!
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
Every year, usually in January, we (Builders Architectural - a top Chicago-based window contractor) receive phone calls from customers who complain of sudden condensation on their windows. This condensation can be surprising because of its ...
Emails Say the Darndest Things
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
The advent of email has created a new environment for human interaction which is simultaneously more and less personal, but much less private. Above all, it is unforgiving. Once you click the "send" button, it ...
Think Like Google With Adsense
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
A conversation with my son Matt confirmed my suspicion. The Google AdSense ads I recently installed on my website www.poingo.com are actually giving me an insight into what the Google search engine spider cherry-picks from ...
Organizing Your Small Business
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
A fundamental challenge of small business can be summarized as "too many tasks, too few people." Unlike large enterprises which can have whole teams devoted to limited tasks - think "Task force for the unification ...
When Good People Go Bonkers
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
We all go nuts sometimes. Even someone as sublimely well balanced as myself goes off the deep end once in a while. When this happens, the bizarre behavior of the suddenly wacko can bring damage ...
How to Write an Article for the Web
By Mark Meshulam · 18 years ago
Most web-marketing experts tout the power of articles for their ability to create inbound links and enhanced credibility for websites. But what they don't tell you is... how the heck do you write an article? ...