Eloise Ensures Cash at the Plaza Hotel

On December 6, 2009

Eloise Ensures Cash at the Plaza Hotel

It appears the owners of the Plaza Hotel in New York are taking the recession seriously by opening a 2,100-square-foot, pink-dipped home for all things Eloise called Eloise Shop at the Plaza. The shrine is based on the Eloise books by Kay Thompson (an adventurous 6-year-old who lives at the Plaza with her main companions, her pug, her turtle and Nanny) and features a retail outlet, tea room, princess staging and a library to view Eloise videos. The Plaza also offers for $995 a night, a Live Like Eloise package, which includes a night's stay, and for $3,855 a Live Like Eloise Slumber Party Package which boasts a Plaza suite for six girls. The Plaza is wisely diversifying its clientele. Not only did it...


On December 6, 2009

Managing Fast Growth in a Startup

Dealing with fast growth can be tricky, just ask Bruce Banner. One moment he’s a regular comic book uber scientist, then someone has the bad judgment to make him angry and next thing you know he’s a 10 foot green monster who uses guns for toothpicks and likes smashing things. That sort of growth always [...]


On December 6, 2009

123People Aims to Help You Manage Your Ever-Expanding Online Footprint

Investigative reporters often like to say that the most basic task we have to be able to perform is to find somebody, especially someone who doesn't want to be found. In the pre-Internet era, we used reverse phone directories, and public records such as those maintained by tax assessors or voter registration officials to do this work. Today, however, most people can be located relatively easily online. Any number of "people search" services exist that offer up addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and much, much more. So much, in fact, that it might shock the average person to discover just how robust a digital profile of his/her online activity can be found with just a few short clicks. Take Derek...


On December 6, 2009

Move On But Don’t Burn the Bridge | BTalk Australia

[podcast] The job market is starting to bounce back. That provides an opportunity for many to move out of the job they've been forced to stick with. So, when you switch jobs, should you tell your old company what you really think of them?


On December 6, 2009

HOW TO: Choose a Smartphone for Your Small Business

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Just as the Internet has evolved over the past decade, cell phones have become much more than devices for making and receiving phone calls. Today, smartphones can do everything from email, [...]


On December 6, 2009

SOA and the Pragmatic Enterprise

Any new information technology might be the best thing since sliced bread, but if people don't understand the value or how to access it properly -- or if adoption is spotty, or held up by sub-groups, agendas, or politics -- then the value proposition is left in the dust. Perceptions count ... a lot.


On December 5, 2009

Insurers Could Become Fire Fighters de Facto, and Face ‘Alarming’ Bills

As ominous as a fire bell in the night is the news that Passaic, New Jersey Mayor Alex Blanco is considering billing insurance companies for fire department services. The state of New Jersey, as well as most of its municipalities, is facing a serious shortfall in revenue. By the latest count, outgoing Gov. Jon Corzine is leaving his successor, Chris Christie, with a $34 billion deficit - just at the state level. And California's budget problems are even worse. Most states and municipalities are facing the prospect of empty pockets and higher taxes. But Blanco has a solution, well, a partial solution. Charge the property insurance carrier whenever the fire trucks roll up to a building that the company insures;...


On December 5, 2009

The Do-Nothing Office of Federal Insurance

The wonderful thing about our government is its ability to create jobs. Not in the hinterlands, where people are faced with gut-wrenching 10 percent unemployment, but in our nation's capital, where no bureaucrat will ever go hungry. It has been decreed unanimously by the House Financial Services Committee that we shall have a Federal Insurance Office. The bill, backed by powerful Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski now goes before the House of Representatives for a vote. For years, many people, including former New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu and even some big insurers, have been pushing for federal regulation of the industry, saying that the current state-run system doesn't give domestic companies enough leverage in the global market. It also requires any innovation...


On December 5, 2009

Chrysler Defends Lancia Ad; Says Ad Age Report Is Wrong

Chrysler says a Lancia ad made by an Italian ad agency that calls for the release of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi did not cost U.S. taxpayers anything and that Ad Age was wrong for reporting otherwise.


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