I think one of the coolest business intellegence tools is a customer relationship manager (CRM). I have a friend that is a sales manager that has told me he couldn't do his job without a CRM. It has become as intregal to sales and marketing as a finance ERP like SAP is to finance organizations. A large number of the marketing roles I have applied for have required experience with a CRM. I recently completed Google's Google Analytics Individual Qualification certification, which Google offers for free. I thought I would see if SalesForce offered similar training. I was suprised to…
I think there is nothing more frustrating and heart breaking than someone that tries to hold an honest job but is still living in poverty because they only make minimum wage or close to it. McDonolds only pays $7.25 an hour, which is currently the minimum wage in the US. I make as much as a whole crew and I struggle to get by. I can’t imagine how someone makes it on an income that low. God help them if they have children. The fact is, I can’t stop fast food companies from paying low wages, but I can eat…
Last night I saw Cloud Atlas. It was hard to do because I have heard the book is so good. But I have enjoyed Game of Thrones after watching the show on HBO, so I thought why not? The movie was OK but it occurred to me that it could have been better if it was longer. Which is an odd thing to say. The movie is already pushing 3 hours, which is suicide in the movie world. But think on this: how stupid would it have been for someone to try to make a 2 or three hour movie…
In a sermon, our pastor criticized online dating. But our church doesn’t offer anything to help single people meet. I don’t know what they expect people to do. I am not about to start hitting on girls during service after meeting them once. Who wants their worship service to turn into a hookup scene? But if not if not that then what? I just don’t think our church has really thought it through. I love their equipping classes and think they could really do something interesting with those. What if they had equipping classes for singles? Maybe a 12 week…
