(This article first appeared on April 24, 2008.) Back in the day, me and Dad — we were the only Joe Hages that mattered. Now with this new-fangled Internet thing, there are Joe Hages all over the place! There’s the Lebanese Coalition Joe Hage and the baseball-playing Joe Hage. The legal Joe Hage could defend […]
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Seattle Marketing Strategy according to Google
In Those other Joe Hages! I groused about some other Joe Hage who was overshadowing my own Joe Hageness. And while “taking him down” did give me great joy, I’ve won a bigger prize. I’m the #1 Seattle Marketing Strategist. As of this writing (updated 11/15/09), I have the first local result and the first […]
Tae Andrews, Rest in Peace
Tae Wan Andrews died on March 30. He was 45. I just heard about it today. Tae was my boss at Kraft Foods when I worked on the Lender’s Bagel business. I liked him, and I’m moved by his death. Working on Lender’s in 1996 was neither easy nor enviable. Bagel shops were sprouting all […]
Tim Russert needed a defibrillator
Beloved NBC political correspondent Tim Russert died yesterday from sudden cardiac arrest, according to Newsweek. If his colleagues immediately applied an automated external defibrillator (AED), he might be alive today. Dr. Richard Shlosmitz, chairman of cardiology at St. Francis Heart Hospital in Roslyn, said, “A layman could have saved his life. Without a defibrillator, even […]