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The largest clothing tradeshow in the U.S. starts officially on Monday August 25 with Sourcing at MAGIC opening Sunday August 24 and I am thrilled to be going!!  MAGIC is the preeminent trade event in the international fashion industry where buyers and sellers of men’s, women’s, and children’s apparel, footwear, accessories and sourcing resources come [...]

More than half of all email users today are using multiple accounts. Because of this, email marketers believe standard email messages are less targeted to users and are falling on deaf ears. Creating effective content for your email campaigns can help determine how responsive your target audience is and help define your own email marketing [...]

“Why? Because I’m the mommy and I said so.”
- Anonymous mommy
Do it now and let’s get on with whatever is next!�
Point-of-sale is a phrase taken from the cash register industry. It describes action “where the purchase takes place.” Consider the latest generation of cash register which instantly updates inventory and orders new product. Before the customer [...]

I’ve been appearing here and there on The Big Idea with Donny recently. Thought you might get a kick out of how the show comes together and the role of so-called experts (yours truly included) who are invited on the show.
Below are the emailed questions I received from the producers in advance of my most [...]

On Tuesday, Jared Tanner, the vice president of marketing at PrintingForLess.com, shared his suggestions about successful PR efforts.
Here is the rest of that discussion:
What advice do you have for small business owners who are looking for a publicist?
Look for one who is active, aggressive and who doesn’t take “no” for an answer.�
Many times, it’s [...]

Today I had an experience I will not soon forget…….This experience deals with NOT loving your product idea sooooo much that you do not listen to reason and jump the gun and order 300,000 units before you have customers. When I told the developer that the product was good, but maybe will have a hard [...]

How much time do you spend managing email today?
Are you often reacting to your incoming email? do you remember what your queue looks like empty?
Online tools are often referred to as opportunities to multi-task as well as key targets for distraction - and it never stops coming.
There was a time when mail only came once [...]

Seeing that I am working from home and still in the first 6 months of starting my business, I am finding professional online communities very helpful.  Not only is it an opportunity to learn from others in a given profession but also provides a social network of people working towards similar goals.  In fact I was surprised to [...]

Hi gang,
Well,  eBay just got interesting again.�
Last night, eBay allowed several media outlets to disclose all of the upcoming changes that eBay will be announcing today.
There’s a lot,  and I don’t want to rehash it all - my job will be to break it all down for you.
For some wierd reason,  eBay itself has not [...]

Hi gang,
I’m seeing a lot of chatter out there that eBay is announcing some moderate to “what the hell?” changes pretty soon.   In the last several years,  eBay will announce something heavy sometime in the 3rd quarter to give all the sellers a chance to react to them before Christmas.
There’s lots of speculation out there about [...]