Posts by Wendy Weber

If you don’t know what it is – and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t – it is an anti-piracy bill making its way through Congress. It aims to crack down on copyright infringement by restricting access to sites that host or facilitate the trading of pirated content. Wikipedia is the biggest name among the…

I just read a piece by Chicago business writer David Wolinsky entitled: Groupon Sinks Another Business. This characterization is completely unfair to Groupon What is happening is that some small businesses, already on the brink of insolvency, are signing on with Groupon in the hopes of enhancing business. And Groupon delivers on its promise; which…

From Recruiter.com…I cannot locate the name of the writer, so forgive the lack of attribution: “There is an absolutely wonderful children’s book called 20 Heartbeats about a painter who paints a horse for a very wealthy man. I hate to ruin it for you, but I have to say what happens. The rich man pays…

Don’t know what a “Cash Mob” is? I didn’t either. Similar to a “Flash Mob” (a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression), a “Cash Mob” is a new…

This is in follow up to my earlier post about odd interview questions. Many of you read a piece in the Wall Street Journal called How to Ace a Google Interview: click here. It alluded to the famous “blender question”: You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your…

Glassdoor.com is a website where anyone can find and anonymously share an inside look at jobs and companies. Their information comes from current and former employees, interview candidates, and even the companies themselves. Each year they publish the “25 Oddest Interview Questions”. It’s always fun; this year is no exception: 1. “How many people are…

I don’t know why I have been receiving promotional emails from Ross-Simons.  I haven’t ordered from them in years. This morning I decided to hit the Unsubscribe button, and this is what I got: Pause From: To: Send me emails once a week Please remove me from any and all Ross-Simons mailing lists Please don’t…

The answer is “yes”. We tend to focus on employee retention as a universal goal.  After all, when you hire good people, you want them to stay with your organization for a good long time. But lately, I have chatted with C-level executives from two different organizations that have intimated that they wouldn’t mind…would actually…

Houston is the nation’s No. 1 city when it comes to “mobile shopping savvy,” according to a new study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Dallas/Ft. Worth were the other top m-commerce cities among the nation’s 15 largest DMAs…. To read the piece reporting this, by Mark Walsh for MediaPost…