I met this morning with some salespeople I’d never buy from. I don’t use their stuff, my customers do. And likely very few of them will need their stuff. It was just a rep taking his principle out for ’sales call theatre’. They came without qualifying me or my need. But in these ‘trying times’, [...]

Update: See last paragraph for a warm fuzzy.
Like news two years ago with frequent reports from Iraq about the latest IED attack, living in Michigan right now is enough to make one shell-shocked.
Every week (or more frequently) someone I know well seems to be hit with unemployment:

A friend bounced out of his retail-staff job.
My neighbor [...]

Well, I’ve discussed lots of online industrial directories, but never MacRaes.
I’m not sure of the history of MacRae’s Blue Book, but they say ’since 1893′. And I’ve never dealt with them in 15 years of marketing. Whatever they were, it looks like MacRae’s died and was replaced by a Keyword Farm. Or maybe what they [...]