Comments on: Tip of the Week: Put a Lion in Your Pocket

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:16:58 +0000

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Take Good Care of my Baby | Maximum Customer Experience Blog — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:12:59 +0000

[...] also like to remind you that you’re very busy (thank goodness! Do you hear the economy starting to roar, just a little?), running your business. Switching gears to analyze and improve customer-facing [...]

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Doin’ It Better Than Ever in B2B | Maximum Customer Experience Blog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:13:48 +0000

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By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:06:28 +0000

@Stephen,

Oh yes. The US Air Force and Lockheed may have introduced stealth technology to the world, but we can borrow it

Brett Legree’s last blog post…blog action day 2008 – picking up the gauntlet.

By: @Stephen

@Stephen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:29:07 +0000

It’s only taxable if it’s trackable…you and I are the only ones that know about the exchange. What Uncle Sam can’t see, Uncle Sam can’t tax.

By: Kelly Erickson

Kelly Erickson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:50:49 +0000

You do know, guys, that barter is taxable, right?

If you fix my barn, though, I’ll overlook it.

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:10:00 +0000

@Stephen, Exactly. That, I believe, is one possible path forward - a return to the old ways, ways that haven't really gone away in lots of places (for instance, where I live - the barter / favour system). You scratch my back, I scratch yours, you fix my car, I help you fix your barn. Tax that, taxman. Brett Legree’s last blog post...gone pillaging.

By: @Stephen

@Stephen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:18:13 +0000

>>Brett: “engineered chaos and disorder to whip up panic,” you are exactly right, the scary part is, I can’t see which bunch benefits the most. Whoever it is, they are going to want to be careful, go to search.twitter.com and put in “John Galt”.

Where is Galt’s Gulch? It’s in the Cloud. It’s in the barter system. I am sure that “Joe the Plumber” can do a lot of small jobs in exchange for food, for gasoline, for all sorts of things that can’t be taxed in the transaction.

The American people are smarter than the American government. By an order of magnitude. If there is a way around this, we’ll find it.

By: 6 Weeks

6 Weeks — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:07:21 +0000

[...] believe this is a great opportunity. It is time to put a lion in your pocket. I believe we have front row seats, to witness not the decline of our civilization, but a new [...]

By: Kelly Erickson

Kelly Erickson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:29:39 +0000

Brett,

Your donkey too?

The world needs to calm down. Stinky, maybe, but a stink we all went along with. Remember Don Henley’s Dirty Laundry? Could have been written yesterday.

Whether anyone intended to engineer it or not, the level-headed people are going to recover a lot faster. I don’t begrudge those who figure it out sooner. I like the free(ish) market system.

I’m shouting because I’m surprised at how few people see this as the time to act—in the markets, yes, but also in their businesses. That’s what makes it worse: Pulling back instead of strengthening their position. Waiting it out instead of leading the recovery.

Heh, wish I had bought at 7900. I love a Clearance sale!

Later,

Kelly