Country star Dolly Parton released her latest DVD exclusively through the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain. It debuted at #2 and is now certified Gold (500,000 copies sold). Pay close attention because this goes far beyond food or country music.
84 year old retail store better than ever, despite…
Yesterday after Christmas dinner I talked to a relative from out of state. He owns a local, brick-and-mortar music retail store.
Problems he faces:
His bank came to him and said, “There’s no way you’re ever going to make any real money based on what you’re doing and we don’t want the business. Sorry, we’re getting rid of you.” The banker remarked that contrary to what a lot of people would like, banks are not in the business of losing money.-Competition from Big Box stores, deep discount online retailers and Amazon. There’s no way he can compete with their prices…
7 Interesting Things, Including 2 Offbeat Christmas Gift Ideas….
-One of this year’s best business books
-The “gearhead version” of Internet history (you’ve heard the jock and prom queen version enough already)
-15 minutes with me and the guys at my office
-The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in West Point, Kentucky
-Microloans for Bolivia and orphans in India no longer homeless
-The coolest online service I’ve run across in quite some