Every business makes mistakes. Whether it’s a company data breach or a customer mix up, the first response from marketing is to announce an apology to all customers: “This will never happen again!” The problem is, it might andeventually, it probably will happen again. According to a ZenDesk and Dartmouth
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Posted July 03, 2019in At Home With
New England vibe inside an Iowa custom-built home While in Massachusetts visiting his daughter, Lee Schweer’s breath was taken away by New England’s colonial-style homes. Upon returning to Des Moines, he went to work with the fury of a Nor’easter. Duplicating that kind of spacious, cozy and high-quality ambiance hasn’t
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Posted July 03, 2019in People & Pets
Pets entertain with circus-like antics. When Nicky and Zach Smith moved to their home in rural Polk City, they wanted their children to be raised with animals. With three dogs, a pony and four cats, that should be enough, right? It wasn’t. Nicky began researching goats as pets and purchased
Read More →Attracting millennial workers is all the rage in the employment space. Generational shifts and rock-bottom unemployment leave small- and medium-sized businesses in difficult straits to find and keep good employees. Many employers feel simply priced out of the market for talent – unable to offer grandiose salaries or traditional employee
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Posted July 03, 2019in Sound Circuit
Canadian rockers experience a full-circle moment after building fan base in small towns. lorious Sons’ lead vocalist, Brett Emmons, took time away from the band while going back to school to study literature at a university in Canada. He told his band to “screw it,” while they performed for six
Read More →The Zoo Brew at Blank Park Zoo is back on Wednesday evenings through the end of August. Listen to bands, visit the animals and take in a cool beverage. Shock Collar plays on July 24. The cost is $14, or it is free with a zoo membership. Alternative Latin rock
Read More →With Parrhesia on the side The apparent menu items in the headers are not to horn in on CITYVIEW’s Food Dude. Besides, Isegoria and Parrhesia are Greek to me. Isegoria is the Greek concept of equality for all in freedom of speech, and Parrhesia is akin to candid and frank
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Posted July 03, 2019in Art News
The Grundigs defied the Nazis, buying a press and distributing pro-Jewish and Communist points of view. Lea Grundig is little known in the U.S. That’s a shame. She and her radical Communist husband Hans lived in Dresden during Germany’s most modern Dark Age, the two disastrous World Wars and the
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Posted July 03, 2019in Collections & Hobbies
After learning a new axe-throwing technique, Manny Kohl has morphed into a world-class axe thrower. While in the construction business as a journeyman window glazer, Manny Kohl was used to building things up. Now he has fun hurling objects designed to chop things down. Starting in earnest less than a
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