Nick R Thomas - A Public Speaker's Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

Also, as with most of my talks, there is merchandising of my booklet. Afterwards, despite the success of the talk, merchandising was almost non-existent and I could see that there were a number of reasons for this. Probus club speaker U3A lectures audiences merchandising readings venuesRedhill and Reigate U3A. In early February I travelled to Surrey to speak to Redhill and Reigate U3A at Reigate Park Church about My Life as a Freelance Comedy Writer.

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Kate's Voice

MAY 3, 2012

When you arrive, you shake lots of hands, set up your merchandise at the back of the room, and get yourself motivated to talk. It’s the day of your presentation. You eat your favorite day-of-talk breakfast. You warm up your voice and say a prayer. When they call your name, you tell the obligatory joke [.]. vocal delivery vocal power breathing delivery vocal health vocal image vocal impact

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 13, 2018

The Walmart we currently know could soon be a drive-thru we swing by to pick up merchandise we ordered online. That Click and Collect merchandise could be groceries or, Walmart's latest acquisition - the lingerie of Bare Necessities. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Eloqui markets its merchandise on its own website and through other online operations such as the popular Stitch Fix.  If they bond with Eloqui merchandise, they can also attach to the Walmart umbrella brand. Walmart has seen the future. And it's digital.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 16, 2017

A smart shopper can get that kind of merchandise for less in a discount store. Walmart, Marc's, Aldi and even the dollar stores have become savvy about stocking cheaper versions of one-time elite merchandise. Human beings are still out there on the street.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Not only are retailers already over-stocking Halloween merchandise. Instead, our vision was immediately assaulted by merchandise for a holiday which doesn't occur until late December. This afternoon, it had been 92 degrees in Eastern Ohio.    Those of us who still do brick & mortar were in for a nasty surprise. The Big Lots in Boardman, OH actually has the front of the left hand side of the massive store jam packed with Christmas decorations. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Neiman Marcus has joined Nordstrom in yanking her brands from its merchandise. Ivanka Trump's business interests are colliding with her political activities. That includes both online and brick and mortar high-end jewelry. Here is the media coverage.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

  Macy's sued Martha Stewart when it got wind that she was also hawking her merchandise, licensed to Macy's on an exclusive basis, to J.C. Some things just don't work out. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Since mid-October retailers have showcased Christmas decorations and other merchandise. On Facebook, during the third week of October, a woman posted:  Please let me enjoy Halloween. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

  POLITICO reports that it is piloting a program in San Francisco of same-day delivery for merchandise purchased on the Internet.  Finally the distressed U.S. Postal Service is getting a feel for how to operate in an era of ecommerce. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 25, 2017

And with each incident the retailer loses $2 to $200 of merchandise. One out of 11 people will take the five-finger discount, documents the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention. The Family Dollar store in Small Town Americana (i.e.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 29, 2014

 Finally in one of those dollar stores where the merchandise prices have escalated much higher than a dollar I found black wool insulated gloves. Lose your gloves, you buy a new set, right?  Not in New England.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Those alternates include subscriptions and developing other kinds of profit centers such as sponsored content, conferences and branded merchandise.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

You can't try on the merchandise.  "From Andreessen Horowitz to First Round, over 100 venture firms and angel investors closed deals for underwear startups since 2012, according to CrunchBase data." 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 31, 2015

There you can get organic/natural food, a huge assortment of discount private-label merchandise, prescriptions filled, and highly competitively-priced gasoline.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 15, 2018

The scheme is to purchase merchandise with the fake money, return it, and receive real money. Sure, there are the complaints that cryptocurreny is nothing but a platform for money laundering.    Of course, that's not true.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Because I have had a good experience with its merchandise, price, and return policy I did not compare its offerings with those of other online vendors by keying in on a search engine terms like "stationary bike." Walmart is getting to look more and more like Amazon.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 13, 2018

The only reason for actually going to the store is to kick the tires before purchase, to speed up the purchase and not wait for delivery, and/or to pick up merchandise ordered online.  WalMart, the media reports , will be distancing itself from the concept of "store."

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

You might be wondering: Okay for a laundry basket, but don't I fear "bugs" in other kinds of merchandise? In Austintown, Ohio, the Goodwill Store at 6000 Mahoning Avenue is packed with shoppers. That's when other discount retailers such as the dollar stores are empty. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If the glam industry wants to reach Everyman and Everywoman it has to show us the affordable way to enjoy quality merchandise and services. Vanity Fair used to provide a tutorial on how to become part of the glam (glamour) crowd.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It had dropped Ivanka's merchandise. Too many businesses are accepting an organized outburst of anger on social media as a "crisis." " They fear damage to sales and to their brand.    Likely, though, they have been gamed.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

At GoodWill, both males and females were totally preoccupied with sizing up the merchandise. No surprise, the GoodWill's version of Black Friday also filled up just about every inch of its brick & mortar retail space in Austintown, Ohio.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 28, 2017

The big boxes carried much of the same merchandise much cheaper. Back in the late 1980s, newbie entrepreneurs such as myself might have found Staples a gift from the small-business gods. It blew into shopping centers in 1986.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

That was because more folks were renting, therefore not purchasing merchandise to fix their property. Again, the business experts are wrong. Some of them predicted that home improvement retailers such as Home Depot would take it on the chin.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 4, 2014

 We could hope that folks are on their computers ordering merchandise and services online. It snowed for about 24 hours.  Then that was the end of that story, for a while.   On the other hand the single-digit cold weather hangs on.

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Great Public Speaking

JUNE 20, 2014

The concept of an effective auto responder is this - you sign up for a newsletter or free merchandise on a website and after you have fully registered, a number of emails promoting other products will be mailed to your email address. Auto responders are very important for your business growth. You can use auto responders to promote your products and services.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

APRIL 17, 2018

She connected the dots that the assigned tasks of buying and returning merchandise were the inner workings of a money laundering operation. The tension dominating "Good Girls" is created by the former "Secret Shopper" turned blackmailer. Already the three housewives, who are currently criminals, had to pay her for two months of silence. The total, so far: $20,000. And she let them know she isn't going away.    GangFriend could off her.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 17, 2015

For example, I can purchase merchandise from other ecommerce platforms instead of that of Amazon. Jon Russell at the influential TechCrunch raises the possibility that The New York Times coverage of Amazon's corporate culture might not have been accurate.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Often stores keep changing the placement of merchandise to supposedly increase sales. No surprise , J.C. Penney announced today it will be closing 140 stores. Like so many other department stores its concept - The Big Store - is out of date.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Goodwill has become a sophisticated retailer for high quality merchandise at prices lower than consignment shops. Oh, no. At the time of this writing - 10:15 A.M. ET, the Dow is down almost 230. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MAY 13, 2018

You bet, he learned plenty about strategic store layout, what items are returned most often, and the soft side of merchandising. A major mistake the over-50 in transition make is this: Not doing paid work between jobs. The typical case was the 61-year-old lawyer laid off last year.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 22, 2013

Companies which depend on impulse purchases at the check-out counter have to re-think merchandising tactics.    BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK reports that sales are down because customers waiting for their purchases to be rung up are preoccupied with their smartphones. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

  Girl Talk is totally focused on the best shops providing used merchandise.    They have to provide gently used merchandise that represents diverse brands, including those of their competitors.  "Are you going to that new Goodwill Outlet on State Street?"  "  That's what I pushed my neighbor into considering.    The Outlet is big and well-lighted and has decent bargains. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 9, 2016

That's because most of them cost more than private label merchandise. P&G has been a non-performer for a while. And, Jennifer Reingold in Fortune explains how it's trying to get its mojo back.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

As Susan Baker details in her book "New Consumer Marketing: Managing a Living Demand System," there were and still are Barbie fan clubs, Barbie conventions, lines of merchandise such as Barbie logo clothing, and animated videos such as "Barbie in the Nutcracker."

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 19, 2011

 The merchandise, although no bargain, was affordable.  Talbots used to be the place to shop for midlevel professional women. The   And, no matter what I selected, I couldn't make a mistake. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

" It seems the location had lots to do with the quality, lay-out, and price of the merchandise.  "This top, which still had a Talbot label on it, cost me $1.80 in the Salvation Army." "   That was the talk on the bus today.    The woman, who had been laid off from a bank last year finally got another job at Wal-Mart.    She was boasting about her bargains. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 23, 2014

 The grocer had to unload that perishable merchandise. In the most provincial village in Germany centuries ago and the most sophisticated cities in the U.S. today the key to survival was and is the ability to sell. The Manhattan developer has to rent out that commercial real estate.

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Pivotal Public Speaking

AUGUST 8, 2010

Effectively merchandising your site. with Tom Gray. Why is it that speakers spend days, months, and years crafting and polishing their platform presentations but balk at spending 30 minutes polishing their web, blog, and newsletter content?

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JANUARY 31, 2014

 By half time I have a hunch some attending had ordered some merchandise online. Shopping malls were the original, though unofficial, Third Places.  That's where women and teenagers hung out when not at home or work/school.  We met each other at the mall.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

APRIL 17, 2017

Consumers demand stores with smaller footprints and curated merchandise. Early this year, the Society for Human Resource Management reports, 49% of job cuts were in retail. This is bound to get worse. For instance, a price war has broken out between Amazon and Walmart.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

DECEMBER 14, 2013

 I had a sugar high just observing their merchandise go along the conveyor belt. Today had all the characteristics of Christmas Day.   Before the snow really started to pound New Haven County, Connecticut, the stores were jammed with people.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 9, 2017

Why was the merchandise in Staples not priced competitively with that in other Big Boxes such as Wal-Mart. Branding is about emotional attachment. In the late 1980s, the Staples brand meant caring and affordability to us new Accidental Entrepreneurs.

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