Here’s this week’s entries from the archives…
November 21 through November 27 2005
Lean Thanksgiving
Establishing payment terms
Saran wrap pattern making method #1
The skinny on retail
Utterly shameless designers
Selling your company
Pattern makers know best
So, what did you do on thanksgiving?…
Previous entries are here, here, here and here. These links will be repeated at close.
In this portion I’ll explain which classes of products need to be tested, if they need to be tested and how this is effected. This first part will deal with kid’s products.…
Previous entries are here, here and here. These links will be repeated at close.
I don’t know how you’re feeling about this but I feel very discouraged much of the time. No, I don’t make children’s clothes but a great many of my friends do.…
There are a variety of ways to express the philosophical values inherent in your company to consumers. These strategies range from patently obvious to pathetic to the parasitic. I call this the three P’s of authenticity. While the patently obvious -better known as cause marketing- can be dicey if not well done, you want to avoid pathetic and parasitic at all costs.…
In reading the most recent issue of Science News (gated), I’m reminded of how I always giggle when someone describes silk as delicate or fragile. Did you know silks have six times the tensile strength of steel? Or that a silk cable, one inch in diameter, could pull a 747 from the sky?…
