Under the title, Retail Industry Group Predicts Small Rise in Holiday Sales, Sandra M. Jones writes in the Chicago Tribune that The International Council of Shopping Centers is predicting a small rise in holiday sales over last year.
While the percentage is small, it’s still an increase and the fact that an industry group is offering [...]
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Back in July I wrote a post (Salesmanship Part 1) about a Saint Louis car dealer, Dave Sinclair. Rather than repeat what I wrote in July, I’ll just let you follow the link.
Sadly, Sinclair has passed away today after a long bout with cancer. I never bought a car from him, but I’ve admired his [...]
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OK, after three days of swine flu talk, here’s something more fun. It may be a bit of a stretch to connect this with small business, but I’ll give it a shot.
250 years ago a Dublin small business man, Arthur Guinness, signed a 9,000 year lease on the St. James Gate brewery and began production [...]
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This is part 3 of our series on the h1n1 flu and how to keep it from disrupting your business (Small Business-Are You Ready for h1n1?, h1n1-1o Tips for Small Business) We turn again to the web site flu.gov for 8 tips for individual workers to avoid the flu. You might want to print it [...]
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Yesterday I pointed you to the Flu.gov, a web site with tips for businesses to deal with a possible flu pandemic. (Small Business-Are You Ready for H1N1?) As I was writing the post, my daughter walked through the room complaining of flu-like symptoms. I told her she should probably stay home from school, both [...]
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last few months, you’ve surely heard of H1N1, or swine flu. The disease is spreading rapidly in areas of the world which are already into “flu season” and there’s no reason to expect that the United States and Europe will be any different.
The Centers for Disease [...]
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Today I want to point you to an article called “The Top Five ‘Killers’ of Retail Businesses” from the Retail Owners’ Institute. You have to keep in mind that the ROI is a group focused on the financial aspects of retailing. Consequently their “Top 5″ don’t include things like marketing, salesmanship, customer service or any [...]
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Eight years ago today, I was on my way to the dentist’s office (not my favorite place to be) when I heard on the radio that a plane had struck one of the World Trade Center towers. At that point no one really knew what was going on and the crash was being viewed as [...]
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Yahoo Finance is posting today that venerable retailer Sears may be in trouble, or at least in more trouble that we thought. Sears posted an unexpected quarterly loss leading Barron’s to state that their stock could fall another 50%
Jeff Matthews of hedge fund RAM Partners is quoted as saying that Sears has “lost touch with [...]
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