I waited a spate of time after Daniel’s entries lest this entry become lost amid his journal entries. This is an interview that I conducted with an unnamed DE I’ll call “A”. It is largely a recitation of everything he and his wife did wrong at their recent launch at Moda Manhattan.…
If I can’t convince you to manufacture domestically, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Birnbaums Global Guide To Winning the Great Garment War. I thought I’d hate it but it’s a great book. Although dated, the analysis of costing the process is invaluable.…
From my mail:
I have a dilemma concerning how to deal with a sales rep and I am facing a situation which has been bothering my conscience for many days now:
My company has changed sales reps recently because we have not been happy at all with the level of service and of the quality of the sales rep’s work.
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I read so much stuff. I used to tell you about it but stopped. I guess I feared boring you. Maybe this will be the start of a new occasional series. Ignore what you will. Today I’m motivated by a recent spate of material about consumer behaviors and signaling, coupled with changes in the luxury market such that I thought I’d write a conglomeration of the material but alas, have done no such thing.…
I don’t know how I managed to mess this up but I omitted a good portion of Daniel’s concluding thoughts (checklist). Sorry about that. Here is the summary of Daniel’s launch journal thus far; parts one, two, three, four, five, six and seven.…
