If you run a small business without dedicated sales staff, do you put a limit on the free time spent on initial enquiries from prospective clients?
Context: I was turned down for work recently because I only offer 30 minutes, and that wasn't enough. I'm not going to change my policy based on 1 rejection, but I am curious as to how long other businesses allow.
A digital health company with an app for monitoring maternal health is receiving nearly $1 million to add an algorithm for detecting a dangerous pregnancy complication.
"Hey boss! I finished that editorial about Microsoft reporting a healthy Q2 in their last earnings call. What thumbnail should we use?"
"I dunno. I'll troll our archives for photos of Microsoft products. No worries..."
One of my neighbors had an A/C failure. They called a well known company in the area and they charged $1,900 to fix the A/C. It lasted one day. Our neighbors needed help so my Mom called our handyman and he called an A/C guy that has just started his business. He fixed the issue for $300. We’re setting #heat records. Please be careful who you hire to fix your A/C. Name brands don’t necessarily mean you’ll get the help you need #business#summer
Anchor, America's first and oldest craft brewer, is to close. The business started in San Francisco in 1896 and survived the city's earthquake and the prohibition era. “The stake through the heart of Anchor was the pandemic,” company spokesperson Sam Singer told the New York Times. Here's a look at Anchor's long history and sad demise.
LG's New Instant Coffee Machine Mixes Two Pods, Generates Twice the Trash, and its Nasa-inspired design looks like the Apollo lunar lander is relieving itself in your coffee cup.
Fmr #Trump treas sec #Mnuchin is telling investors he has a plan to buy #TikTok
Mnuchin told potential backers he aims to maneuver around its price of >$100B & #China’s ban of the export of recommendation #algorithms.
He indicated he could overcome those hurdles by offering to buy the #app w/o the export-blocked #code, essentially forcing his consortium to remake a service built on billions of lines of code.
I tried to just cover the "news" on this one, but I'm still too emotionally invested in how these social media services keep getting worse. https://somegadgetguy.com/2024/03/15/reddits-ipo-i-hope-it-fails/
I hope Reddit's IPO fails. It probably won't though...
There's 24 people injured on a flight from Sydney to Auckland.
And what stands out for me is the frankly sociopathic statement from the airline:
"LATAM regrets the inconvenience and injury this situation may have caused its passengers, and reiterates its commitment to safety as a priority within the framework of its operational standards."
First, how did we ever get to the point where this kind of, frankly, bullshit public relations response from companies is acceptable?
Who actually thinks this response to a crisis is remotely acceptable?
If 24 people are injured on a flight, clearly that airline's "framework of its operational standards" isn't working.
Frankly, after an incident, those operational standards probably need reviewing.
And just look at the passive voice in that first sentence. "This situation may have caused"? "Regret" rather than "sorry"? Passengers being rushed to hospital is an "inconvenience"?!
If this statement genuinely reflects this company's attitude towards safety, then frankly it should never fly again.
"If humans pass their cosmic exam as local universe problem solvers and continue on the planet into the twenty-first century, there will be no thoughts whatsoever of earning a living. There will be no thoughts of, or even such words as #business#competition, #money, or #lies for such phenomena will be historically extinct. Such words as #politics, #war, #weapons, #debt will be only of historical significance."
Thanks to our Mastodon community, my movie “ECCO and the profit of war” has now passed 500 views, which hopefully means 500 fewer customers for the shoe company supporting Putin’s war economy.
The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions (www.businessinsider.com)
As NASA aims to stay on the moon, private firms are racing to be the first to go where no company has gone before.
Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous (www.nytimes.com)
Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.
America’s bosses just won’t quit. That could spell trouble (www.economist.com)
Bob Iger is not the only one hanging around for too long