Blog Title: Digital Money World

MONSTER MINI GOLF: Trademark Infringement Suit Has Happy Ending

(FranchisePick.com) A while back I asked for nominations for companies to be considered as Top New Franchises.  Several franchisees of Monster Mini Golf wrote to praise their franchisor (Read:  Franchisees Are So Happy, It’s Scary).  I also heard from a number of customers who raved about the indoor miniature golf concept.  I called the read more..

AreYouRomantic.com Connects Caesars Pocono Resorts to Younger Couples

Caesars Pocono Resorts (CPR) has been in business for over 50 years and has a steady base of loyal customers. Their next mission was to attract younger couples to their resorts. Working with EMA, they created a uniquely-branded microsite - AreYouRomantic.com to serve as a portal that would connect visitors with CPR’s Romance Concierge - read more..

Free Ebook Report: Employee Engagement Advice for Organizations

Need a little more employee engagement where you work? Who doesn’t! Former co-editor of Slacker Manager David Zinger compiled 52 of the most powerful sentences for employee engagement and put them into a free employee engagement ebook. All the tips are from the amazing folks in the Employee Engagement Network, facilitated by David, and now over read more..

A Resolute 2009: We’re One Week In, What Have You Done So Far?

We’re a week into the new year already. Did you take some time to plan the next year? Of course, I’m not talking about planning out your daily schedule for the next year, or even your weekly schedule. Think bigger picture. Where do you want to be a year from now? What do you want to read more..

VisualCV’s New Year’s Webinar

What’s a VisualCV? VisualCV.com gives you an easy new way to present your Curriculum Vitae (CV) or resume online. VisualCV replaces the traditional resume with an online professional profile. VisualCV.com is the first website that allows you to create an Internet-based resume, build and manage an integrated online career portfolio, and securely share professional qualifications read more..

Skank: Defamation or Opinion?

Where do you draw the line between opinon and defemation & libel? Model Liskula Cohen is asking a New York court to force Google to reveal the identity of the anonymous blogger behind “Skanks in NYC“.  The site is composed of exactly five posts, all aimed at snarking at Cohen, with images that had to have come read more..

Testimonials - Why You Need Them - How to Get Them

I firmly believe in the power of testimonials.  You know, those “I lost weight and so can you” things you see on ads for weight loss programs. What is your first though on seeing this “before and after” photo? Was it “Wow! How did she do that?”  or was it “They must have altered that photo” ?  read more..

Where Are You On the Path to Financial Freedom?

Here are 5 steps that can help you reach financial freedom.

Satyam Computer Chairman Admits Fraud, Stock Virtually Worthless

Satyam Computer Services (Ticker: SAY), a once globally respected IT firm is now being referred to as the “Enron of India.” That name says it all, but what happened?  Like Enron, it appears this company engaged is massive accounting fraud. According to CNBC’s Street Signs, the vast majority of the company’s cash position was a lie! The chairman appeared on CNBC back in November read more..

Old Fashioned Cocktails Back In Style

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,349,476366,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}() According to MSNBC, bartenders and liquor companies are seeing a resurgence in comforting ‘heritage-style’ cocktails, thanks to this continuing recession. Old-school concoctions, like the Sidecar, Old Fashioned, and the classic Manhattan, are taking over bars across the nation. Julian Cohen, head of the consumer insights team at Fortune Brands Inc’s read more..

Newspapers’ Future Unsure

A recent survey from Pew Research Center has found that the Internet has now become the main news source, other than TV, for most national and international news. The survey has found that 40% of respondents use online sources to get their daily dose of news. So this can only mean that newspapers are going to read more..

Deadly Freelance Assumptions (Or How To Go Out of Business)

When I first started my full-time freelance business, I was operating under several assumptions that no longer seem to apply in this economic climate. I assumed, for example, that it was better to work for larger clients because they had bigger budgets, and as a result, would be more likely to pay me on time. I read more..

Is Your Business Name Being Squatted?

Remember when domain squatting was a BIG deal? You know, when a person bought a domain with a specific company name and basically holds it for ransom, like the famous case of Madonna, who had to sue to get ownership of Madonna.com. Well, it’s happening again, but this time on the microblogging site Twitter. Some of read more..

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: Open the Door, It’s Pizza Time!

Open the Door, It’s PIZZA TIME!!! is FranchisePick.com 1-for-2 special contribution to both Wordless Wednesday and the Bizzia Carnival of Pizza Time: Franchise Pick:  PIZZA TIME: Whistleblower Gets Fired, Interview Chatter:  For Managers Only: Pizza Time Out, Franchise Pick:  Franchisee From Hell! Awards: Luke Benjamin, Pizza Time,  Franchise Pick:  Can the Lacey Pizza Time be Saved read more..

Financial News: U.S. Deficit Likely to Hit $1.2 Trillion

In fiscal year 2009, the U.S. decifit is likely to be right around $1.2 trillion.

PIZZA TIME: Interview Chatter Weighs In

Darlene McDaniels, the Bizzia Human Resource go-to gal* and blogger at Interview Chatter, has weighed in** on the Pizza Time controversy, sparked by the franchise owners’ innovative use of hypothermia as a management technique.  Luke “The Iceman” Benjamin and his wife Gretchen (aka Mrs. Freeze) allegedly shut off the heat in their pizza shop and read more..

IRS Plan to Help Distressed Homeowners Falls Short

The Internal Revenue Service has announced a process that is supposed to make it easier for financially distressed homeowners to refinance a mortgage or sell a home by providing options when there is a federal tax lien blocking the transaction. The expedited process provides for: Make a tax lien secondary to the lien by the lending institution read more..

Home Business Opportunity - Professional Organizer

I’m getting organized!  I’m very excited about this, as I have been frustrated over the past month as I try to get my home business going.  I have a lot of STUFF sitting around (David Allen of Getting Things Done (GTD) actually calls it that) and I have problems every day figuring out what to read more..

Wordless Wednesday: He Loves Us

On A Personal Note: I sing among the many things I do. And I heard this video at a rehearsal a couple of weeks. And we turned it around and did this song on New Year’s Eve coming into the new year. It was in my spirit and I thought I would share it with read more..

Wordless Wednesday: Leadership Tools?

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