http://bradszollose.com Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:23:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brad is featured this month in the Details Magazine June/July 2008 issue with Christian Bale (a.k.a. Batman) on the cover.  The article Your Career May Already Have Peaked by Mac Motandon on page 113, speaks loud and clear to those Gen X and Gen Y entrepreneurs who cashed out during ... http://bradszollose.com/2008/06/09/brad-szollose-is-featured-in-details-magazine-this-month/ Maybury's Two Laws "Do all you have agreed to do Do not encroach on other persons or their property" Many years ago after dabbling in the Stock Market, New York real estate, various mutual funds and such, I threw my hands up in disgust. I came to the same conclusion that Suze Orman ... http://bradszollose.com/2008/04/16/who-is-richard-maybury-and-why-you-should-know-him/ While Americans are starting to feel the effects of the mortgage meltdown, derivatives, inflation, credit problems and a war-based economy, Germany, as of this past year, stepped into the leadership position as the number one exporter of goods in the world, a.k.a. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Yes, little old Germany. ... http://bradszollose.com/2008/02/19/what-happened-to-the-economy-it-moved/ After turning a modest sum into a few million I realized that a close friend of mine had to have a system to explain her über success. When I pressed her to reveal the secret, she astounded me with something I always knew was there, but never awakened to. It ... http://bradszollose.com/2007/12/23/creativity-is-king/ Mergers and acquisitions rarely work. Short term they look great, but long term always reveals that the purchaser paid way too much for a bloated carcass. Or worse yet, the two companies are incompatible. I wish that people who specialize in M&A’s would take some basic marketing classes. It would ... http://bradszollose.com/2007/10/14/how-a-brand-recovers/ I realized I was getting older when I didn’t know half of the celebrities in the American Express ads. That’s right I said it, “I’m getting older.” Most of my life I tried to stay in touch with what the youth were up to, but getting up on Saturday mornings ... http://bradszollose.com/2006/10/30/who-the-hell-is-dane-cook/ My mother had a tendency to be a hypochondriac. Every six months it was a new ailment that she would see on TV or read in the paper. We couldn’t keep up. So when she complained of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome we kind of laughed, after all, she never worked on ... http://bradszollose.com/2006/10/30/thank-you-starbucks/ Imagine if Amazon decided to build bookstores in all the malls across the country. How successful do you think they would be? Not very. The simple truth is an online brand doesn’t translate into the brick and mortar world very well and visa versa. Starbuck’s doesn’t work online but is ... http://bradszollose.com/2006/10/26/online-brands-vs-real-world-brands/ There is only one electric company in New York City; Con Edison. When public utility brands like Con Edison treat their customers like children, what are the results? Extreme frustration from the consumer and no changes what-so-ever within the corporation. We have no choice when it comes to who our ... http://bradszollose.com/2006/10/26/why-do-public-utilities-advertise/ Rupert Murdoch impresses me, but not for being hip and cool enough to get MySpace and what it represents, but for the simple fact that he is my father’s age. While my father is yelling at the local skateboarders to “get off my lawn!” Mr. Murdoch seems to embrace these ... http://bradszollose.com/2006/10/26/the-future-of-myspace/