Eight Myths About Brand
05/14/2019 There’s a lot of misinformation floating around about brand, a subject that’s not only misunderstood, but also undervalued. Brand strategist and author Lindsay…
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Not Mistakes, Just Lessons Learned
05/14/2019 by Phil Wrzesinski The famed physicist Niels Bohr once said, “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can…
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It Hasn’t Lost Its Luster
05/14/2019 by Claire Sykes Most people only dream about their dream job, figuring they’ll get to it someday. Jack Cohen of Pittsburgh wasn’t going…
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The Whiffenpoofs
I first became aware of “specialty” toy stores more than 30 years ago. Some of them were hybrids spun off from the school supply…
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bigger and better
3/14/2019 by Tina Manzer New York’s Toy Fair 2019 in February was the largest in the show’s 116-year history. The annual event at…
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Change Your perspective to Change Your Business
03/14/2019 by Phil Wrzesinski Wanna change your business for the better overnight? Put on a hat and go outside. (P.S. Don’t want to go…
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at the center of success
03/14/2019 by Claire Sykes In the late 1970s, Jim Davis was a kitchen contractor and his future wife Retha was a food editor for…
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Truckin’
As long as I have been around the toy industry, there has been a discussion, sometimes heated, about the role that gender plays in…
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On the Rise
01/31/2019 by Claire Sykes It was the last thing they expected: when Yamil Castillo and his wife Sue walked into a Salt Lake…
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Don’t Work the Deals, Work the Toys
01/31/2019 by Phil Wrzesinski Independent retailers – and I include myself in this statement – are a bunch of hypocrites. We really are….
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