From late November through January 1, the United States is fully immersed in what is generally called “Holiday Season.” It starts with Thanksgiving and doesn’t stop until we ring in the New Year. In between, we celebrate Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and a host of other festive events. One international Holiday that’s never really caught on […]
If you’ve spent any time at all shopping on the internet recently, chances are you’ve come across a subscription box service. These services, in which customers pay a monthly fee in exchange for a curated set of goods, have become one of the market’s hottest trends. Customers love subscription boxes because they get all the […]
Every year, Americans from sea to shining sea take a Thursday in late November to gather together, eat some turkey, watch some football, eat some more turkey, and count our many blessings. We sit around tables with our friends and family and take some time to think about everything we have to be thankful for. […]
Photo via Crushader CC-BY Rushing is never something any of us wants to do, and doing so can lead to numerous negative outcomes as focus shifts from speed to safety. If you rush your prep work for dinner, you may end up with a little less skin on your finger. If you rush to work, perhaps […]
Pittsburgh Penguins This year when the Pittsburgh Penguins take the ice for the first game of the season as the defending Stanley Cup champions, they will do so at the PPG Paints Arena, and not the Consol Energy Center. Fear not Penguins fans, as this will be the very same building that the Penguins have […]
Perhaps one of the most surprising stories of 2016 was the complete explosion of Pokémania throughout the world in July. Pokémon, originally launched in 1996 by Nintendo, was a pair of handheld video games in which players caught, trained, and battled a large selection of fictional monsters called Pokémon. The franchise quickly took off, spawning […]
No Man’s Sky from Hello Games was one of the most hyped video games of the past few years, and it was easy to see why. It allowed players to fully explore a procedurally generated universe, the scale of which had never been seen before in a video game. That universe boasts an unfathomable number of planets; […]
With both fantasy football and its professional counterpart kicking off this September, a great deal of attention will be on drafted players. In the real NFL, fans will finally get their chance to see whether the players their team selected this past April turn into star-caliber performers or plain old lumps of coal. Fantasy football […]
Unless you own a restaurant, there is really no such thing as a purely local business anymore. You may own a store in a small town in the middle of Wisconsin, but you’re still competing with manufacturers, retailers, and other services from all over the world. The internet has erased most of the borders that […]
Summer is almost over, and that means back to school time is here again. While kids pick out those first-day outfits, sharpen up those pencils, and load their bookbags, school administrators and teachers are preparing for every facet of the new school year. That means ordering textbooks, writing lesson plans, setting up classrooms, and planning […]
Scouring the internet for promos can be taxing, especially when there are so many other facets of your event to plan. From reserving your booth to speaking to the efficacy of your product or service, planning a promotional event involves a myriad of steps. Bouncing from site to site to compare prices and inventory doesn’t […]
If you’ve spent much time on the internet, you’ve no doubt heard the oft-repeated advice, “Never read the comments!” There’s a reason this has become such a pervasive idea. For a normal person browsing the internet, avoiding the comments is a brilliant way to avoid shocking assaults against the English language, hideous vitriol, spam ads, […]
