For those of you who read yesterday’s blog post, you know that I have had a major bone to pick with the Highland Utah Jiffy Lube. If you are interested in following the saga here is a short update. Today I received 2 voice mails and 2 emails from different high level Jiffy Lubers. (I […]
Author Archives: David Mink
Occasionally I experience something in the business world either so good or so bad that I cannot help but blog about it. My goal (beyond ranting) is to remind the business owners who read this blog about the priceless value of real customer service, as well as providing a taste of the business-crippling effects that […]
I received the following ‘hypothetical’ question by email this week. (*Disclaimer: This is a hypothetical question receiving a general information answer.) The Question: “If a person has an email list, about say classic trucks, and then that person hit’s the list with an affiliate promotion for a marketing product; Is that spam?” I believe the […]
Chances are you hear several messages each day on ways to save money on legal fees. Companies like LegalZoom inundate the marketplace with advertisements for purchasing canned legal docs. I have a better solution – what about free canned legal docs? There is a fairly new social media site which aims to do just that. […]
One of the questions that many business owners share is “what types of contracts need to be in writing?” Many people actually assume that a contract has to be in writing in order for it to exist. While I agree that all contracts SHOULD be in writing, many do not HAVE to be in order […]
As of 2008 there are 37 states in the USA, which have passed an anti-spam law to regulate unsolicited commercial email. Each one of these 37 states has a unique law, as there is no uniform state law. Despite there being no uniform law most anti-spam statutes, as well as the federal CAN SPAM ACT, […]
A couple of weeks ago Mat Siltala wrote a useful post with tips for using LinkedIn. I thought I would add one additional tip for you today. I have found that creating groups can be a great way to capture and then speak to an audience. The Tip is to create a LinkedIn group, that […]
Yesterday, while talking with our utah web designer about business entities I once again realized how often people unexpectedly enter legal business partnerships. Why does this matter? Well to answer that you really have to know what it means to be part of a legal partnership. Wikipedia defines a partnership this way: In the commercial […]
What if I were to tell all you business owners (who hate to pony up cash for lawyers) where to go to get FREE answers by actual lawyers to legal questions that you have? Would you actually leave a comment on one of my posts? My two posting comrades (Mat and Andy) are killing me […]
A few days ago I wrote a post about the US v. Drew case. That case has now been concluded (for the time being) with the jury finding Drew guilty of guilty of three misdemeanor offenses of accessing computers without authorization. Each offense is punishable by up to one year in jail and up to […]