the economy get better. not only are we seeing kraft and the heinzes of the world merge, but a bunch of other companies american. so since 2008 during the financial crisis, 2014 was the biggest year of mergers. almost $3 trillion worth of mergers happening. they re saying that 2015 will trump that. it s because the economy is doing so well. the stock market is doing so well. there s so much cash on the books, now is the time and it s cheaper doing this way. absolutely. the flip side to that, jim, if you re looking for new jobs out of this, you re not going to find them. there will likely be a lot of layoffs so people could be looking at this as a sign we re not expanding we re just buying out each other. what would you do if you were a big company with a lot of cash and business wasn t that good in terms of new people coming in and increases in sales. you would buy back your own stock which people are using
business wasn t going too well at this restaurant. dana is her name. the restaurant is just cookin . they weren t doing well in business. i m going to put it in the hands of god. she had faith in people. pay what you think we re worth. and her business tripled. pay what you think the meal is worth and service is worth. some people buying other people s meals. they don t want anyone to feel bad if you can only pay a few bucks. business has taken off. i love that story. that renews my faith in humanity. positive things happen to good people like that. sometimes the middle of the night what you don t want to hear are your kids chatting to each other. unless they are these cute 1-year-old twins playing peek-a-boo with each other. the dad started rolling as you can imagine. they are playing peek-a-boo. so adorable. the dad uploaded it on facebook. woke up in the morning to find 2 million people had watched this adorable clip of his daughters molly and megan. pretty cute, huh?
business wasn t going too well at this restaurant. dana is her name. the restaurant is just cookin . they weren t doing well in business. i m going to put it in the hands of god. she had faith in people. pay what you think we re worth. and her business tripled. pay what you think the meal is worth and service is worth. some people buying other people s meals. they don t want anyone to feel bad if you can only pay a few bucks. business has taken off. i love that story. that renews my faith in humanity. positive things happen to good people like that. sometimes the middle of the night what you don t want to hear are your kids chatting to each other. unless they are these cute 1-year-old twins playing peek-a-boo with each other. the dad started rolling as you can imagine. they are playing peek-a-boo. so adorable. the dad uploaded it on facebook. woke up in the morning to find 2 million people had watched this adorable clip of his daughters molly and megan. pretty cute, huh?
just my little kind of outreach got me a huge feature in self magazine and we were still a teeny tiny little company. it s the kind of promotion you can t buy. an entire spread in a national magazine. with readers exactly in her target market. this could be a dream come true. a game changer. well, unfortunately for bizzie, it was neither. as soon as i got booked for that it was that like pang of like, oh, no. i wasn t prepared. before starting her company, bizzie was a yoga instructor and had a background in both pr and marketing. so when it came to launching her business, she played to her strengths, which were developing her programs, and then getting the word out there. my plans, they weren t revenue based. they weren t numbers based. they were more pr platform strategies. but it was her weaknesses which turned this great plan into a great missed opportunity. i wasn t prepared, i didn t
present your business on msnbc. hi there, everyone, i m j.j. ramberg and welcome to your business. when bizzie gold launched her fitness brand buti yoga her number one priority was getting pr. but her brand-new business wasn t quite prepared for that kind of exposure. so instead of having a company built on a house of cards, bizzie set out to fix the infrastructure of her business so that the next time there was an influx of press she d be ready for it. soon after she started her los angeles based fitness company buti yoga, owner bizzie gold got an opportunity most founders only dream about.