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Doo-Doo Butter

Last week, Cabot Creamery recalled 1,700 pounds of their “extra creamy” premium sea-salted butter due to…wait for it…fecal contamination.

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Liberation Day

Last week, Trump announced a universal 10% tariff on all imported goods, with more to come, as a corrective measure to unequal foreign tariffs on US goods and as a revenue-raising strategy to help finance sweeping tax cuts they hope to announce later this year. 

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World Record Skills…In What?

On the list of the most pointless skills to master, Joel Strasser has won multiple Guinness World Records for putting things in his beard. If you have no life, you can waste a couple of minutes and watch the various videos he has online, putting straws, candy canes, chopsticks and golf tees in his whiskers. He even has a few motivational videos showing how he deals with critics and haters about growing a beard big enough to hold 3,500 toothpicks. 

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Power And Profit

Elon Musk was quoted as saying, “It’s okay to have all your eggs in one basket…as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

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Cocaine-Addicted Rats

Let’s talk about the metaphorical RATS that can take up residence in your business that gnaw away at your profits and productivity. They all start hiding in the dark, sneaking around at night when nobody is looking – and if not checked early, they can overwhelm your entire system.

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Your Business, A University

Last week, I received something out of the norm: a thank-you note from a salesperson we fired. He was a good guy but just wasn’t hitting quota, so back in November we made the decision to part ways. But here’s the really cool thing about his note…

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Feelings…

According to USA Today’s Ad Meter, Budweiser won the Super Bowl’s best commercial for 2025 by bringing back the Clydesdales in their “First Delivery” commercial that reads more like a feel-good Americana movie about an underestimated “hero” proving his worth than a beer ad. Coming in at a close second was Lay’s “Little Farmer” ad, which is identical in storyline to the Budweiser commercial, only using a little girl instead of a pony. There IS a formula there.

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