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Using Recession and Bailout In Retail Signage Gets Results
An article in today’s New York Times by Peter Khoury titled, Welcome to Hard Times, the Sales Pitch detailed how local merchants are riding the recession alluding to it in their street signs. O… more →
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When bad weather affects shopping
jlgmuniz wrote 7 hours ago: Retail expert Bob Phibbs, known as the Retail Doctor, cautions that severe winter storms could affec … more →
Haggling???? I don't think so!
kyteman4 wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to Bob Phibbs for this gem: So every price is movable? The lowliest employee can “save … more →
Using Recession and Bailout In Retail Signage Gets Results
bobphibbs wrote 8 months ago: An article in today’s New York Times by Peter Khoury titled, Welcome to Hard Times, the Sales … more →
Starbucks Ready To Franchise?
bobphibbs wrote 8 months ago: Numerous articles covered Starbucks shareholder meeting late last month where they talked about the … more →
Macy's Poster Child For Zombie Retailer
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bobphibbs wrote 8 months ago: I was driving to an event last week and realized I hadn’t packed socks. No big deal, saw a big … more →
10 Things I Hate About Twitter Tweets
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bobphibbs wrote 9 months ago: OK, so I get it, the whole social media 2.0. The possibilities of interfacing in whole new ways. Att … more →
Get Rid Of Bad New Hires Within 30 Days
bobphibbs wrote 9 months ago: This is a companion to a post I wrote last week titled, Now Is The Time To Fire Them All Their First … more →
The Economic Stimulus Plan - You Got Yours
bobphibbs wrote 10 months ago: I was walking through Dulles International airport in Washington Sunday when I stopped and noticed t … more →
Starbucks Says Uncle To McDonalds
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bobphibbs wrote 10 months ago: McDonalds executives in Illinois must be partying today – their premium coffee and McCafe … more →
Stupid Ways To Cut Costs For Restaurants: Fire Busboys
bobphibbs wrote 10 months ago: An article in the Wall Street Journal, If a Half-Eaten Burrito Lingers, There May Be No Busboy to Bl … more →
Keep Pant Stackers At Wal-Mart Not Your Retail Store
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bobphibbs wrote 11 months ago: Restoration Hardware As I was checking out a mall the other day it hit me that the problem with re … more →
You Can Compete: Double Sales Without Discounting by Bob Phibbs; Summary by Bob Johnson
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Bob Johnson wrote 1 year ago: The Book Review and Summary is available on Docstoc, click here to read it. Our company, Kaffe Magnu … more →
Retailers Discounting Their Way To More Holiday Red Ink
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bobphibbs wrote 1 year ago: One of this blog’s readers, Paula from San Francisco sent her recent shopping experience to me … more →
How Being A Blogger Is Like Being A Franchisee
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bobphibbs wrote 1 year ago: I was the CMO for the second-fastest growing company two years running in Los Angeles County. It was … more →
BusinessWeek Podcast: How To Thrive in a Retail Downturn.
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bobphibbs wrote 1 year ago: The holiday retail outlook isn’t jolly, with consumer spending down and unemployment up. But small … more →
You Can Compete - Double Sales Without Discounting by Bob Phibbs
Bob Johnson wrote 1 year ago: Reminder: I get no money from the authors or from Amazon. These are books that I find useful. I … more →
Marketing Lessons From Prop 8 Defeat
bobphibbs wrote 1 year ago: Last week’s defeat of California’s Prop 8 is a classic case of not knowing your market. … more →
Retail Sales Collapse – Don’t Let It Happen To You
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bobphibbs wrote 1 year ago: So if you’ve been under a rock, you may not have heard that retail sales were down across the board … more →
Retail Marketing: Ask For Referrals
bobphibbs wrote 1 year ago: People often ask me for the “magic bullet;” that one thing that will make them money. In a word, it … more →
