When I started working for the New York Mets in 1986, there was a nice clean line between the fans and the game: 1. The players played the game 2. The fans watched. There were exceptions — I remember a particularly violent Upper-Deck encounter between a group of intoxicated corrections officers and everyone around them […]
You can buy brussel sprouts just about anywhere. But only at Seattle’s Pike Place Market can you buy… By the way, if you’d like to buy some 30-second Messages of Prosperity Generation, give me a call. And if you have a name for radio commercials that’s better than that one, I’m open to suggestion. Leave […]
I’ve made the Sweet 16 (out of more than 100 entries) of the Inside Sales Experts Elevator Pitch Contest. For the next 72 hours (as of March 26), I’m up against the always-dangerous Joseph Kupstas of Goodfellas Construction. If you could take a moment to click here and vote for Phil Bernstein, my mother would […]
My friend Susan recently alerted me to an article about I-Booze — a Seattle-area online service that delivers alcohol, cigarettes, and other items. Founder Karim Varela came up with the idea while sitting in a San Francisco jail on a DUI charge. ‘I was sitting in jail for eight hours with nothing to do besides […]
The full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times offers an Ellen Tracy Trench for $150. There’s a color photograph, and the caption underneath says THERE’S NOTHING NAUGHTY ABOUT BUYING THIS TRENCH… WEARING IT, HOWEVER, IS ANOTHER STORY. Who might buy — and wear — a coat like this? I’m thinking that the target is, […]