by Stan Phelps | Aug 16, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Sometimes the opposite of a good thing is also a good thing. According to Barbara Nemitz, the author of “Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Culture,” the color pink contains, “An extraordinary number of contradictory qualities. . . The pink...
by Stan Phelps | Aug 13, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
It was 1893 in London, and Douglas Macrae, the publisher of the Financial Times, was looking for a way to distinguish his newspaper from the competition, the Financial and Mining News.In Pink Goldfish 2.0, David Rendall and I profile the important decision he made....
by Stan Phelps | Aug 11, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Ed Debevic’s opened in 1984 in #Chicago. Imagine a 1950’s themed diner with burgers, fries, shakes, and really rude servers. A video of one of their mean servers, Kryssie “Cherry” Ridolfi, went viral in 2015 and has more than 4 million views on social media. They also...
by Stan Phelps | Aug 10, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
“No one walks into McDonald’s’s and gets disappointed when they don’t see filet mignon on the menu.” This quote was from the former CEO of Spirit Airlines.Spirit actually began as a trucking company in Michigan in 1964. The Clippert Trucking Company started...
by Stan Phelps | Aug 9, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
“The internet is forever.” You’ve probably heard some version of this statement before. It means that once your personal information or a tweet or a photo or an article is on the internet, it will never disappear. There is no reliable way to remove it. This phenomenon...