- African proverb

Every week, this guy sent a beautiful red rose to 2,500 women in New York City. Some of them were drop-dead gorgeous, others kinda dumpy, but that didn't matter to him. He'd send the flower and a poem, and he admittedly had only one thing on his mind...

You walk into your favorite retailer and find the manager sitting on the toilet. Still want to shop there, or are you more likely to walk out and never return? Yet according to our own Mr. Marketing, an amazing number of businesses purposely give their own customers this exact impression. It's gross, totally unnecessary, and ruining your sales without you even realizing it.

In case you missed it earlier, the US Postal Service is about to raise rates again. It's an endless cycle - they raise rates, we mail less, and so on. Yet hope appears from overseas as Germany reinvents its post office, selling thousands of building, firing 100,000 people, and shifting its focus from paper mail.