Lessons learned Cooking in a wood oven

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

Despite popular belief, the owners of Patio & Pizza Outdoor Furnishings weren’t always pizza oven experts. We started out like everyone else with a few (or maybe a lot) failed pizzas and a lot of lessons learned. It was our passion for good food that drove us to improve our methods and eventually share our …

Recreational Vehicle Types

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

Buying an Airstream, Monaco, Beaver, Winnebago, Holiday Rambler, Jayco, or HitchHiker RV? Well, you’re not alone and despite high fuel prices, Class A motorhomes are the only category seeing a decline in sales. Motorhome shipments to dealers in 2006 fell 11.9%, but Class B and Class C motorhomes are showing slight increases. Travel trailers continue …

5 ways CRM integration with marketing automation will help you drive sales and grow your business

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

Most companies understand, or somewhat understand, that customer relationship management (CRM) is a way of archiving and organizing customer data to make it accessible and thereby increase customer satisfaction. Marketing automation is understood by most marketers to be a way to make marketing tasks easier and more effective, or as HubSpot defines it: “Marketing automation …

Even the smallest hand can hold a diamond

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

I recently attended a wedding at the circus. I mean a circus-themed wedding, not an “under the big top” wedding, though there was a lot of fanciful shenanigans and enough slapstick that one might have a hard time telling the two apart. Near the entrance to the store was a table laden with circus curiosities …

Diet Solution Program Review: The Truth Exposed

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

You probably know how difficult it is trying to lose weight. You go on crash diets, exercise until you can’t feel your limbs, and still end up with disappointing results, if any at all. It can be so daunting at times, but you should not give up. It may be time to look for something …

An admission and a green card

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

One Easter weekend a couple of years ago a news item surfaced that could be of importance to those interested in Immigration Law as well as those interested in Evidence Law. The story came out of New York state and may have object lessons for federal immigration officials and immigrants seeking to obtain their green …

Cruise reflections around the world

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

As a certified travel agent for four decades, international airline employee, researcher, writer, teacher, and photographer, travel, whether for business or pleasure, has always been an important and integral part of my life. Some 400 trips to all parts of the world, by road, rail, sea and air, involved destinations both mundane and exotic. This …

Understanding (and correcting) the property tax assessment

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

Imagine, if you will, Tinyville, a community of only ten houses. All ten houses were of the same size and style, built at the same time on similar sized lots, using similar architectural drawings and building materials, each with comparable views and amenities, and each sold to its original owner for the same price, $250,000. …

What is a leader? – Defining Leadership Qualities in Mice and Humanity

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

What is a leader? How do you define the qualities that make up the concept of Leadership? These questions were recently posed to me when my editor came looking for a new line of products for the company’s Personal Development catalog. We were talking about it over a plate of General Tsao’s chicken, ironically. I …

Autographed Baseballs: Building a Collection

November 2, 2022 0 Comments

Autographed baseballs are among the most popular types of sports memorabilia, with a history stretching back decades. Teams have been writing on them since the earliest days of the game when the teams, score, and other details of a game were written on the ball, which was then kept as a “trophy”. Signing or autographing …