Spivak Management Announced Today: Infomercial Icon Ron Popeil Takes on Twitter
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LOS ANGELES, Oct 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Spivak Management announces Informercial Icon Ron Popeil's new move from
TV to social marketing.
Eric Ortner of Spivak Management announced today that TV and direct
marketing pioneer Ron Popeil will expand his reach with a new free
social media campaign on Twitter(TM) as he prepares to come out of
"semi-retirement" to launch America's Next Great Consumer Product.
For a limited time (through October 31st, 2011) Ron will
offer his free opinion on whether an idea will "Fly or Fail" to Twitter
users who follow @RonPopeil
AND hashtag their tweets #PopeilFlyOrFail.
As one of Ron's Twitter(TM) followers, you can tweet him (@RonPopeil)
with what your new invention idea does and what everyday problems it
purports to solve. (Ron is not interested in what your product invention
is -- but more importantly -- what it does and what problem does it
solve?) Ron will then reply and let you know the likelihood that your
product will "FLY OR FAIL" - and it's FREE! And as Ron jokes, "Not only
is my opinion free to my Twitter(TM) followers, but there is no shipping
and handling. LOL."
Source: MarketWatch (press release)
Harvest season is here with apple orchards busy
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Gardeners also face some of the same problems that farmers do, but are usually not dependant on their garden for their livelihood. Apple orchards face more risks than many other crops. Late spring frosts can damage blossoms, strong winds can break branches or blow down apples, and worst of all, hail. Even a small amount of hail can do major damage, and hail-damaged fruit has very little value.
Overall, the year has been pretty good for our orchard. We do not have nearly as many apples as last year, and the several weeks of dry weather probably caused some apples to be smaller than normal. We also did have some hail very early in the season, which is now apparent on some of the apples as they are being picked. We do, however, have a lot of nice apples picked and in our cooler.
We still have not picked all the later varieties, such as fireside, prairie spy and keepsake; and still have some honeycrisp and haralson on the trees. I am a firm believer that apples need to be ripe to get the best flavor, and because everything this year ran about two weeks later than normal, we are picking some varieties later than normal. And all the apples on a tree do not ripen at the same time, so we try to pick them as they ripen. We have 115 apple trees, and 35 varieties, but of course some of these varieties ripened much earlier and we are now into the later fall varieties.
Source: Albert Lea Tribune