Sometimes I'll step back and look at changes across several years. Many clients don't realize the subtle changes they've caused.In the business we're ...

While your agencies and paper reps and printers furiously lobby for more of the same, your job becomes a lot more interesting.What happens to your business ...

Here's one ... this category had problems last year.4 Years Ago = $6.1 million.3 Years Ago = $6.7 million.2 Year Ago = $6.7 million.1 Year Ago = $6.7 ...

This is the 5,602nd post I've written ... about 280 per year for twenty years. More in the early years, fewer in the past decade.There isn't a single ...

History is littered with the concept of marketplaces. "Shared money".The entire purpose of a marketplace is to capitalize on shared money, to a point where ...

Can I show you something?Home ownership is a classic example of BNPL. You buy the house, and then spend each month "paying later".Let's assume you buy a ...

You're painfully aware that I have three time-consuming hobbies.Headphones.Weather.PickleballThere are different disciplines within Pickleball. You have ...

Bad behavior has happened forever. I spent nine months in the dot.com era at a retargeting startup. It seemed like every-other-week my company issued a ...

In 2005, retail brands thrived via mall-based retail, classic cooperation between competitors. Having a Nordstrom anchor on one end of the mall and a ...

Consultants can take a path favored by hyperbole. DISRUPT OR DIE! REAP THE REWARDS OF AI!  A few retail gents come to mind on this front. The rhetoric is ...