Thursday, February 19, 2009

How to spice up trade publications...

Furniture Today is your usual boring trade publication, but because they allow comments on their articles it gets more interesting.

Like the US factory in China that went bankrupt - its the comments where everyone bitterly complains about the CEO and his scamming ways that makes it interesting.

Or today, the story about a lawsuit, which mentioned that the principal from the company being sued slipped out, and re-opened under another name. (They wrote this more tactfully than me, though I was surpised they even did that.)

The comments included calling that guy "a sleaze" and wondering what retailers would buy from him. (I am guessing sleazes - they stick together.) 

The more I do business, the more scumbaggery I see. Maybe that's why some people think businessmen are evil types.  

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