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Marketing’s Sonic Boom: The Sounds that Make Money

Back in 1974, Wilson Bryan Key published Subliminal Seduction exposing the ways marketers use subconscious images to manipulate consumers, like the word \”sex\” hidden in ice cubes in a liquor ad. The book was filled with lots of examples of […]

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Innovation for the Risk-Averse Retail Radical

Micro-Risks The Lean Startup approach, based on the book by Eric Ries, is about starting small and testing until your ideas are fully baked. The book details many well-funded Silicon Valley failures, and while the examples are primarily tech-based, the […]

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The World Is More than Flat

By Robin Lewis Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed contributor, authored the book The World is Flat, published in 2005. In a nutshell, the thesis of the book claims that “when the world is flat, […]

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The Rise & Still-Falling Iconic American Brand

This article is not an attempt to match Edward Gibbon’s epic book, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, in quantity or quality, although its quantity might seem as intense. And it’s not another bashing of Eddie “the magician” […]

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Subscription Retail

[…] I stumbled upon the revitalized Book of the Month Club. You subscribe and receive one book each month, with five books to choose from. I got big Kudos for giving such a “thoughtful” gift. The best part? When the list […]

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Planes, Trains, Trucks and Ships

It seems Amazon is now “nuking” everybody.  Last week it was nuking the fashion industry.  This week, the armed ballistic missile is pointed at the global shipping industry.  In a world of hyper-competition, its plan to launch a global shipping […]

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Lead Like Her: Maria Silsdorf Is a Fearless Trailblazer

Get ready to be inspired by Maria Silsdorf, retired retail operations executive and former Operating Vice President Store Operations at Bloomingdale’s. Maria is a true pioneer who shattered glass ceilings as one of the first female operations executives during a […]

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The New Rules of Retail

This is an interview with Michael Dart, who co-authored, with Robin Lewis, the book \”The New Rules of Retail.\” Be sure to get your copy of the book at Amazon and check out the reviews and other information at NewRulesOfRetail.com.

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The Spa Treatment

Now Department Stores Beauty Brands Want a Piece of the Action Since this past July, when he came on board as Clarins USA’s first-ever National Director of Sales in its Hotel & Spa Division, Barry McCaffrey has barely spent a […]

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