New Mailing Standards for Lithium Batteries. We ship so many items montly that have batteries both in the Us, and to and from Overseas and all across Europe. Guidelines vary but USPS has recently issued new standards for how we ship items with Lithium batteries. Taken from the USPS website let's review some important info. What are Lithium Batteries? Used in a diverse range of products such as cameras, laptops, [...]
I stumbled over this letter I had saved, and i remembered why I had saved it. 2years ago at Holiday time we received this letter from one of our client's clients. ~Take a moment to absorb that. ~ For one of our law firm clients we had sent out some fabulous gifts to their list of about 150 clients. We received this letter (names have been blocked out to protect the not [...]
What's in a Name? The Washington Redskins Logo in Controversy. With unprecedented pressure on the Washington NFL team to change its name a crescendo was reached today when the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board canceled six federal trademark registrations owned by the team, ruling that the term "Redskins" was disparaging to "a substantial composite" of American Indians when the marks were granted between 1967 and 1990. In an article in [...]
I want to meet your mother-Neil Patrick Harris! Well, actually I did back in 1988 when I worked with Neil Patrick Harris on his first film Clara’s Heart along with Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan and so many more. It happened to be a really sweet movie. And fun to work on. I handled the local casting for the Baltimore Shoot. This was Neils first movie and if I [...]
Breaking News:Attention all Broadcasters. It is time to be a little more respectful of the use of the term "BREAKING NEWS. We get it, there is a lot going on in the world and much of it is important. But "Breaking News" should only be used for NEW INFORMATION that we haven't heard in the past dare i say. . . 24 hours that warrants disruption of regularly scheduled programming. [...]
Whatever you call it – it can be brilliant or a bust. I didn’t want to get on the whole GROUPON made a mistake band wagon, but then I thought, why not. Whether you call it being punked, or sneaky it proved to be a well thought out fun Prankertisement. For me, The fun tho, really comes from a place that many of you have heard me talk about in [...]
Business Etiquette 101 reminder- Don't Ignore what's right in front of you. Yesterday was one of those days where frustration mounted and by the end of the day I wanted to shout out from the rooftop I WILL NOT BE IGNORED. But in the end it was a gift because it gave me incentive to write this post. The word IGNORE- to disregard or neglect is not a word you [...]
