Today is...

[IceWizard]

06 Mar 2017


National Be Heard Day



Small businesses have many challenges to be successful. It can be an exciting experience to start a business and do something that you love. The reality comes in getting your message out and bring the paying customers in. Getting marketing advice can be an expensive proposition and every penny counts to a small business.

Be Heard Day is the day to make things a little easier!

History of Be Heard Day

The task of getting the message of a small business through all the noise of bigger companies and their marketing machines could be described as herculean. Local and small businesses are sometimes not even noticed by those who live near them because of this. Marketing and Business Strategist Shannon Cherry saw this problem and decided to do something about it. She created Be Heard Day in 2004 and since then has been making a difference to many small business owners.

Her goal for Be Heard Day reportedly is to make it a “give away day”, a day where she and other business and marketing professionals offer their services and knowledge for free. How amazing this that? Being able to get advice from these professionals could mean the difference between complete failure or shinning success for some small businesses!



And





Crown Roast of Pork Day



Culinary holidays just don’t get more impressive than Crown Roast of Pork Day! You know the dish, it’s the one where the ribs are stood up to form a circle with the little tiny hats on the ends. It’s time to get the courage to give it a go, and why not, a whole day has been set aside!

History of Crown Roast of Pork Day

The pig is one of the oldest forms of livestock since approximately 5000 BC! It’s relative was the wild boar. It was domesticated in the East and to this day is the most eaten meat in the world. There has been more to the pig through the years other than its meat as well. Pigs have very sensitive noses and are able to sniff out truffles which are a very expensive fungus used in gourmet cooking. They also helped with the farming by breaking up the soil that was to be plowed.

Knowing that this animal has been around through so much history gives us an idea how long people have been creatively cooking pork. You can easily picture an impressive crown roast of pork being presented on a royal table. Perhaps the “crown” was a nod to that idea. You can say that people have been celebrating Crown Roast of Pork Day for hundreds of years.




And




National Cereal Day



How do you start your morning?

If you are like almost half of the people in the United States of America, you are enjoying a bowl of cereal to fuel your morning! Cereal Day was created to shine a light on this favorite breakfast food. Do you know the history of cereal or do you suppose that it was always the sweet creation that we find in the supermarket aisles?

History of Cereal Day

Cereal got its start in the 1800’s as an unappetizing and difficult to digest health food. Made of nuggets of bran it was thought to regulate what was a meat heavy diet. Most American’s at this time ate mostly pork and beef. The diet of the time was very unhealthy and those who wanted to improve society thought that they could make changes in diet that would bring spiritual and social change as well.

Dr. James Caleb invented the bran nuggets to help the patrons of his sanitarium. A sanitarium was a place where people would go to recover from illness or injury or to partake of restorative spa treatments. There was a spiritual side to being at the sanitarium as well and Dr. Caleb hosted several prominent people including the woman who created the Seventh Day Adventist religion.
Dr. John Kellogg took an interest in health foods for his patients. He created granola and with his brothers help created many other meatless breakfast foods. They even came across the method that let wheat flake instead of being a nugget and corn flakes were born!

It wasn’t until 1939 that cereal would take on the sweetness that we are familiar with today. The sweet creation was called Ranger Joe Popped Wheat Honnie and was marketed towards children.

You could say that the rest is history!

From that moment forward cereal has used the marketing tactic of appealing to children through radio and TV ads.

---

---

---

---

March 7 Birthdays



Bryan Cranston - 61



Wanda Sykes - 52



Rik Mayall - (1958 - 2014) (56)



Matthew Fisher - 72



Peter Wolf - 72



Taylor Dayne - 54








March 7th

1994: The U.S. Supreme Court decided that rap group 2 Live Crew’s parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” did not break federal copyright laws.

1987: Peter Gabriel reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the second and final time with “Big Time” which peaked at number eight. The song featured Stewart Copeland from The Police on drums.

1987: The Beatles’ first five studio albums were released on CD. This was the first time the original mono mixes of the first four albums were released in the U.S.

1976: Elton John was immortalized at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in London. John was the first rock star to receive this since The Beatles.

1975: Chuck Berry walked offstage after performing for 58 minutes at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Berry pointed out that he was only contracted to perform for 45 minutes & that the house lights weren’t turned on for his final song.

1975: David Bowie released his ninth studio album Young Americans which contained his first number one hit in the U.S. “Fame”.

1973: Columbia Records A & R man John Hammond suffered a heart attack while attending a Bruce Springsteen showcase concert at Max’s Kansas City in New York City. Hammond signed Springsteen to Columbia Records.

1970: Creedence Clearwater Revival peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Travelin’ Band” which was their fifth top ten single in the U.S.

1966: Brian Wilson released his debut solo single “Caroline, No”. It would later peak at number thirty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart & be included on The Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds.

Birthdays:

Matthew Fisher - Organist for Procol Harum born in 1946

Peter Wolf - Singer for The J. Geils Band born in 1946