Selling and Marketing Items that Sell themselves
Porterde1 There are some products and services that market themselves in the world. the primary example of this is Apple- selling technological devices that are outrageously expensive but yet seem to…
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The Admissions Office: Selling a Personal Investment
College is expensive. I know that even for me when it is all said and done I will have close to twenty thousand dollars of student loans from the semester…
Kohl’s, Macy’s and J.C. Penny
Last week it was reported that Kohl’s Corp. posted disappointing sales growth in the first quarter, raising concerns that a strategic plan unveiled last year to jump start the struggling…
Empathizing when it’s hard: Conflict Resolution
It is interesting to think of sales as an argument- a lot of the core concepts that we took away from class apply in real life as well as hypothetical…
Social Selling
It is interesting to think of sales in a nonprofit sense- a fundraising angle that is not often considered when dealing with businesses and corporations. For instance, if Pink claims…
America’s Education Model Kills Creativity and Entrepreneurship
As the title states, over the past decade, a Professsor at William and Mary has been testing children on their synthesis and creativity and how they relate to the education…
Starbucks passes Subway in U.S. sales
USA Today reported this afternoon, “With almost $12.7 billion in U.S. sales in 2014, Starbucks pulled away from Subway and claimed the No. 2 slot for the first time, according…
Cereal Sales Slumping- The need for convenience
We have come to a time in our culture where sitting down at the table and pouring a bowl of cereal is considered an inefficient start to the day. The…
Streaming Music Sales Tops Cds
We have known that this day was coming for a while now. Streaming music juggernauts such as Spotify, Groveshark, E-music and many more have been growing for years. ABC news…
The Downtown Store- A new strategy for google
Google has chosen the city for it’s first physical location and it has been revealed that the location is London, England. The cutting edge shop will be located at Tottenham…