An Applebee’s recently opened up here in Atlah, and it’s doing pretty decent business on a strip of 125th Street that attracts scant foot traffic at night. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at the restaurant’s success, seeing as how we praised the chain’s business acumen in a 2005 Slate column. But we do find it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'business'
The Appeal of Uniformity
February 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags:advertising·business·Fantastic Sams·marketing·psychology
The Commandos Take Nagaland
February 1st, 2010 · 5 Comments
It should go without saying that we do our best to keep apprised of the goings-on in North-East India, a place near-and-dear to our hearts. (Yeah, we have multiple hearts—what of it?) We were thus chilled to learn recently that the esteemed province of Nagaland has been invaded by Mary Kay Cosmetics. And the grand-dame [...]
Tags:business·India·Mary Kay Cosmetics·multi-level marketing·Nagaland
The Mongoose as Showman
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments
We’ll be posting later today about the best books we read in 2009, but we thought we’d start the day by shouting out a book sure to be atop our to-read list for the coming months: Snake vs. Mongoose: How a Rivalry Changed Drag Racing Forever. Drag racing owes much of its current success to [...]
Tags:business·cars·Don Prudhomme·drag racing·funny cars·Hot Wheels·Snake vs. Mongoose·sports·Tom McEwen
The Madden Killer That Wasn’t
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Microkhan is one of the few (American) football fans who doesn’t lament the retirement of longtime TV announcer John Madden. For far too long, the noted fried-food enthusiast has filled airtime with nothing but head-thunkingly obvious comments. His typical pre-kickoff riff over the last decade has gone something like this: “To win, I think they’re [...]
Tags:business·Buster Douglas·football·games·John Madden·Mike Ditka·Sega Genesis
Dear Leader is Strictly Business
February 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Really wish I had the funds for an early March trip to The Hague, as this event (PDF) looks damn nigh unmissable. It’s certainly not the longest business seminar I’ve ever seen, which I guess says a lot about the state of the North Korean economy. Poor Evert Jacobsen, for example, only gets 15 minutes [...]
Tags:business·North Korea
