Archive for April 2016
MonaVie – The purple juice business goes down the drain
The MonaVie Purple Juice Collapse MonaVie was a multi level marketing (MLM) company that manufactured and sold fruit juice beverages and supplements. For a time, it was a top player in a growing market—some call a fad, others call “cult-like”—that touted the miraculous health benefits of certain berries and “super” juices. MonaVie didn’t sell its…
Continue ReadingNetflix Raises Price to $10 – The price of binging went up $2
Netflix is raising the price of their popular streaming service to $9.99 per month. This means that all Netflix subscribers will have to pay an extra 20% to keep watching the same service they have now. Is the price hike worth the extra $2 per month? Netflix has grown from delivering DVDs to homes (does…
Continue ReadingHillary Clinton’s House of Cards
Hillary Clinton has survived the Bernie Sanders socialist uprising and has become the first female presidential nominee from a major party. Her rise to power has many wondering if she might be a character out of the Netflix hit political drama House of Cards. The scandals, investigations, and rumours of corruption read like the script of…
Continue ReadingIs WakeUpNow alive? The death of a marketing scheme
Is WakeUpNow dead or alive? With a recent bankruptcy and social media rumors, it may be hard to tell if the the marketing scheme is still around. WakeUpNow was a multi level marketing (MLM) company based out of Provo, Utah, that sold health and financial service products through a network of distributors. These distributors made…
Continue ReadingThe Shell Game: Exposing Americans in the Panama Papers
The Panama Papers is the largest ever leak of secure data. The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung received a large amount of encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based company that sells offshore shell companies to wealthy clients. The secure documents have been called the “Panama Papers” which contain copies of emails, PDFs, and photo files from the…
Continue ReadingNetanyahu meets with House Speaker Paul Ryan in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan in Jerusalem today. Speaker Ryan led a bipartisan delegation of U.S. congressmen in a visit to demonstrate America’s strong support of Israel. “The delegation expressed strong support for Israel,” said a short statement issued Monday by the Prime Minister’s Office following the meeting.…
Continue ReadingSpoiler Alert: John Kasich Does Not Win GOP Nomination
Donald Trump has accused Gov. John Kasich of stealing votes from him. Trump called on Kasich to drop out of the race arguing that Kasich is too far behind in delegates to win. Kasich’s losing campaign strategy may spoil Trump’s chances at reaching the magic 1,237 delegate number. Gov. John Kasich is the latest candidate in a…
Continue ReadingMedia Blackout Won’t Stop Bernie Sanders
Wisconsin is Ready for Bernie. Poised to collect his fourth consecutive win, Sen. Sanders has succeeded in standing up to the Clinton media machine. He has endured an onslaught of media silence that has enabled his campaign to perfect its grassroots social media messaging. Networks have devoted a paltry amount of air time to Sanders compared to other candidates. The volume of…
Continue ReadingThe difference between Shop Small and Shop Local
For years now people have been attempting to encourage consumers to “shop local” and “shop small”, using the terms interchangeably along the way. It’s hard to argue with these movements though because of course you want to shop locally, of course you want to shop small, and of course you want to invest in your…
Continue ReadingHillary’s new drug to fight entitlement outbreak
Hillary’s Clinton Global Initiative is always on the lookout for new opportunities to help people. A viral breakout has inflicted millions of college students and unemployed millennials. Using her strong health care experience, Hillary may team up with pharmaceutical giant Valeant (VRX) to develop a new antibiotic drug to combat this tragic outbreak. Ebola, Bird…
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