Fake Money Blog

These lyrics are made for today and for coming year. The secret of going through tough times is to “just be yourself”. It is so simple that you just won’t think of it. We are so concerned what goes on outside - bad news from left and right - that we stagnate and fail to [...]

I posted that link about retailers dropping their prices, well here you have more information about the backgrounds of this situation. Don’t you wish they for once would be able to come up with better explanations and analogies than “We have so much debt that if we stacked 100 hundred dollar bills, the stack would [...]

Today I had a discussion with one of our sales reps. He had suddenly gotten an inquiry from abroad. It was a person familiar to him and they had even done some business before.
THE CATCH
Sounds like a fairly sellable situation, right? Well, this rep rakes in just about two million euros per year and the [...]

Bloggingstocks has a good post on how spending on romance is also affected by the recession. Their post starts like this:
As John, Paul, George, and Ringo once said, “Money can’t buy me love.” While true, money can buy long-stemmed roses, expensive dinners, theater tickets, and jewelry.
Pretty accurate don’t you think? The question is that if [...]

I have been paying attention to moves that Honda has made in order to tackle the downturn. Massive production cuts and layoffs but also some interesting marketing moves. They have announced their withdrawal from F1 and quitting the support for AMA road racing. I suspect that they will have to pick one focus and try [...]

Recession, financial crisis, downturn and bailout; everybody loves to write and talk about these things. But apart from having easy topic to vent about, how could we benefit from it? By writing about bad times we get attention, but very few businesses want to label themselves with negative issues or feelings. You have already noticed [...]