Crabby Claws

Well I know that this is not the best title, but hey it rhymes. And hey I think I spelled “rhymes” correctly. Anyway, we try and use sales reports and financial modeling to predict our sales and plan for our sales growth. We also use it to plan on how much inventory we will need and forecasting for our time. So while we can easily predict our sales by simply calculating them on a spreadsheet…

I am not sure why I am writing this article but I got a little patriotic bruise when I read an article that China has surpassed us in becoming the worlds largest economy. Now this didn’t bother me to much because we still have a lot better quality of life and higher per capita income. But what I did not know was how little we impact China in way of imports. The Chinese seem to…

The EPA or the Environmental Protection Agency is charged with helping and protecting our environment. Especially from ourselves. You see we are harmful creatures, us humans! We emit a thing called ozone into the atmosphere through our plants and other pollutant emitting factories. The goal is to go from the current range of 75 parts per billion of allowable ozone to 70-65 parts per billion or even lower. A move that could cost the industries…

So the other day I put up some new listings on one of our eBay accounts that included short style antennas for a Hyundai (is a registered trademark by Hyundai Motor Company). Only to get a notice from eBay a few days later, that the listings we cancelled due to trademark infringement. The listings did not have any products that were infringing on any products, they just had the word of the car maker above…

The Crab Claws area is all about things I dont like and want to rant about. But hey I am not here to just complain I want to help to. So we dont just whine about it, we give you a solution. If you have anything you dont like in the online business world, then please leave a comment in the discussion section below and lets discuss it. Why is Google Panda 4.0 so hard…