Category: Don McNay

Marketing Lessons From The Street

Marketing Lessons From The Street

| February 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

I learned some wonderful marketing tips from mobsters.

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Don’t Get Rid of Food Stamps Just Yet

Don’t Get Rid of Food Stamps Just Yet

| February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

Several years ago, my sister, Theresa, lost her white collar job when the large company she worked for shut down.

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Wait For The Second Marshmellow

Wait For The Second Marshmellow

| February 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

The New Yorker published a 2009 story about the psychology of delayed gratification.

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Why Entrepreneurs Aren’t Like the Rest of You

Why Entrepreneurs Aren’t Like the Rest of You

| January 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

An aspiring life coach has been working to help me improve in several areas.

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Is America Following The Lead Of Italy?

Is America Following The Lead Of Italy?

| January 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

I could be the last person in America to read Eat, Pray, Love, but there is a segment in the book that keeps running through my mind.

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Lessons From The School Of Hard Knocks

Lessons From The School Of Hard Knocks

| January 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

I told a friend that my McNay Consulting organization has started doing life coaching. She looked at me strangely and said, “You’re fat.”

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The Quest for Perfection

The Quest for Perfection

| January 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

Ashley Judd appears to have a perfect life. She is a rich and famous actress who supports a number of good causes.

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Remembering The Economic Other Side

Remembering The Economic Other Side

| December 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

My late father was a professional gambler. Toward the end of his life, he was an active volunteer at a soup kitchen in Cincinnati, which was run by the Sisters of Charity.

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Bill collectors are now able to talk with the dead

Bill collectors are now able to talk with the dead

| December 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

Last year, The Wall Street Journal posted a story about Portfolio Recovery Associates, one of the nation’s largest debt collectors, using the signature of a woman named Martha Kunkle, who died in 1995.

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Legalized Loan Sharks

Legalized Loan Sharks

| December 8, 2011 | 0 Comments

The town where I grew up in Northern Kentucky was a haven for organized crime.

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