It feels to me like more trade shows are being better produced at exactly the time when we don’t need them in quite the same way we use to. Or maybe there’s the same number of trade shows, but we don’t feel the need to go to as many. Or maybe retailers, who don’t make their living […]
Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them; Trade Shows, That Is Read More »
Almost as soon as my article on surf industry internet models was finished, Swell shut down its Crossrocket site and then, on May 3rd, announced it had raised $2 million in bridge financing. I hate it when that happens. Rather than just throw up a press release that created more questions than it answered (see it
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The NASDAQ stock market rocketed towards heaven for several years. Its decline has been equally spectacular. Four trillion dollars of value have been wiped out in a year. It’s matched its worst fall ever in percentage terms, but it’s done it in half the time. Should we be surprised? No. The statistical concept of “regression to the mean” is working like
Recession? You’re Kidding- Right? Please? Read More »
Just about a year ago, I asked here in Surf Biz what it took to make money on the internet in the surf business. I said that if you were exclusively an etailer, and had to be both a merchant and journalist, it cost a lot of money just to operate, and you had the added
After the Gold Rush; The Internet’s Role in the Surf Industry, One Year Later Read More »
Here we all are, back from ASR and boy are we excited. More brands, more excitement, hype, orders, deals, three page ads in Skate Biz. People can’t get enough of skateboarding There’s nowhere for business to go but up, and it’s got to be even better next year. Unless, of course, it’s not. As a business
Sell!? Maybe It’s Time to Think About It Read More »
It’s not that this group of retailers, speaking at the Transworld Industry Conference in Banff, was wrong in the comments they made about how suppliers work with them. God knows I wouldn’t want to be a snowboard retailer and, in the words of one participant, it may indeed be a good year if you manage to
Everybody Needs a Balance Sheet; Notes from the Conference Retailer Panel Read More »