Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]
Juggling Clowns Pork
Hey, Buddy! A friend called me a couple weeks ago. Not a close friend, more of an acquaintance. She said her family was having this huge barbecue party in the park. She said it was for a bunch of different things, but one of the main thing was her daughter’s fifth birthday. […]
Protecting Market Share
Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]
Seduction Trifecta
The Juggler So a couple of weeks ago I was down at my local park. It’s a relatively big park. On the far left side there is a big huge flat cement area where a lot of kids come and do skateboard tricks. On the far right there is a more of a grassy […]