National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

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Like most things, the concept of a “salesman” has changed greatly over the past couple of decades. In the past, the word “salesman” conjured up images of a sharply dressed middle aged man showing up at your door with a briefcase and a sparkling smile, ready to push his wares and services.
Many experts believe that [...]

To get a business going you have to have two things. One is an idea, service, or product. The other is the skill and ability to communicate with particular people about your idea. In the good ole’ days, the only way to communicate with potential customers was to spend money bombarding them with telemarketing calls, [...]

The economy is tough, and you’re looking for a job. But braving career fairs and online job sites can be frustrating and fruitless. Just this week, hundreds camped out for job openings at the Miami fire department.
And, indeed, these are tough times. Unemployment is at a 16-year high (7.2%) and job seekers outnumber openings three [...]

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that has seen massive growth over the last two years and it can be a boon to any online marketing strategy.
The site allows users to post short messages to all other users that subscribe to their feed, or in Twitter-speak, their “followers”. Messages, or “tweets” have a [...]

In these lean economic times, small businesses should look for ways to cut costs. Though you might not need to alter your entire marketing strategy, the following tips can be helpful to keep the marketing engines running on a little less fuel than normal.

A lawyer at one of the larger firms around here sent us a pretty funny email the other day that was definitely worth sharing. It’s about his experience at our local airport, RDU.
I just hit the men’s room at RDU before hopping on my flight tonight. Each urinal had a shoeboxed.com business card on top [...]

About a week ago, I got an email announcing that MTV’s The Real World would be casting in Durham today. After reading Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreak Work of Staggering Genius, in which he tells a tremendously entertaining account of his attempt to get on The Real World, I had always secretly wanted to try out.
I [...]

So today is Cyber Monday, according to Shop.org. This is the biggest day of the year for online shopping. And as a platform that exists to help you in organizing your online and offline receipts, we’re obviously excited.
Well, actually, as much as we like online shopping, we are not necessarily fond of every holiday neologism [...]

It’s a big day at shoeboxed.com. For once in our lives, we feel loved.
The team has been really impressed with the response we’ve been receiving from within the on and off-line communities. It’s not only great that so many people are traveling and returning to the site, but many are going out of [...]