No doubt one of the biggest stories to hit the Atlanta area was the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Delta Airlines. Delta’s financial importance to the Atlanta market can’t be understated. The Georgia House even approved a bill that allowed Delta to not pay $28 million in taxes, to try to help the company get […]
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Delta: Flying Through Rough Air
March 31st, 2006 · No Comments
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Capitalizing on Being “Cinderella”
March 31st, 2006 · No Comments
The story of the sports world is George Mason University’s run to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. Mason, an 11 seed, defeated 1 seed UCONN in what some are calling the greatest upset in NCAA Tournament history. The Patriots have become the darlings of the sports media and the biggest Cinderella story in […]
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The Power of Music
March 6th, 2006 · No Comments
As I watched some of the Academy Awards last night and listened to the music as each presenter came on stage, I began to think about how powerful music can be in a moment.
Most of us can think of songs that we heard during defining moments of our lives. Be it graduation, a bad […]
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The Power of Music
March 6th, 2006 · No Comments
As I watched some of the Academy Awards last night and listened to the music as each presenter came on stage, I began to think about how powerful music can be in a moment.
Most of us can think of songs that we heard during defining moments of our lives. Be it graduation, a bad break-up, […]
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What would you do?
February 27th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Time for a little role-play…
The 2006 Winter Olympics is over. Did anyone notice? Did anyone watch?
Nielsen ratings for the Games were down four points, or 20 percent, from the Nagano Games of 1998. There were three million fewer viewers compared to the Salt Lake City Games of 2002. So […]
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The Super Bowl: A recap
February 6th, 2006 · No Comments
I’m going to start this post off with my list of favorite commericials from last night; after all, this is why most people really watch the game…isn’t it. So here it is the list of best Super Bowl commercials 2006. Drum-roll please…
Budweiser-Streaking sheep: Watching that thing dance was hilarious!
Sprint-Crime Deterrent: […]
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The “Fall Out” over Oprah and Frey
January 31st, 2006 · No Comments
I realize that I may be a wee bit late in writing this post and this topic has probably been hashed out elsewhere, but tough , I want to throw my two pennies in on it!:)Â
As I was away this weekend on a golfing trip this story was everywhere; on every news station and […]
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Disney find its white knight
January 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Well done Mr. Iger, well done!
In a move that wasn’t conceivable one-year ago, Disney has acquired Pixar animation studios. The stock deal, worth $7.4 billion, is a huge step for Disney in restoring its beleaguered animation division, and brings in the most talented and creative team in movie making today.
Until […]
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Advertising the blog way
November 17th, 2005 · 1 Comment
As we all know, we bloggers march to the beat of a different drum, a rare breed of folks that need to have things tailored to them. Well today, I stumbled across a very cool site called BlogAds. The company specializes in making ads for blogs…in case you couldn’t figure that out from the name. […]
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Women make great evangelists
November 14th, 2005 · 3 Comments
This morning, while sipping a delectable green tea and enjoying a tasty pastry…well, who am I kidding it was coffee and cereal…I read an article in Ad-Age by Marti Barletta entitled “The Spiral Path to a Woman’s Purchasing Decision,” since I am always trying to understand these strange and wonderful things called women. Shortly after […]
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