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 ...

This video of a Backgammon championship garnered more than 175,000 views to-date. It's on YouTube, there are analysts discussing the match, they have a ...

The best businesses I work with balance merchandise, marketing, and creative.Cyber Monday obviously skews strongly to pricing ... no need for marketing / ...

January can be a "blah" month from a marketing standpoint. The thrill of achieving an order at 60% off is replaced by the tepid response of a customer ...