December 2011
2 posts
“Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand
Precisely measure the...”
– http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/insulate-yourself.html
November 2011
9 posts
“Rooms are albums that provoke memories. What you decorate with should remind you...”
– belle maison: Quote of the Week
Buy it as is or personalize it.
Differentiate your store by offering your customer the option to personalize products.
Purchase from Stock, Scenario 1:
Brooke walks into your store, and falls in love with this drape on the sales floor:
It’s perfect. Everything about it works for her - the fabric, the colors, the size. You pass along the order information to us, and we ship within a couple days (direct to her or to the...
October 2011
3 posts
“(Jobs) knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to...”
– http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/1104099551
“You see, I think (Jobs) better than anyone understood that while ideas...”
– Jonathan Ive at the Steve Jobs Tribute.
August 2011
3 posts
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to...”
– Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come...”
– Steve Jobs: From college dropout to tech visionary - CNN.com
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
“The bouts of depression and self-doubt are reasonable and inevitable.”
– Varsity Bookmarking My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea what I’m doing (via hiten)
Print Your Personal QR Code on a Pillow
At GlobalWeave we’re all about personalization. With this next venture we’re integrating personalization & geek chic - allowing you to print your personal QR code on a pillow.
What is a QR code?
QR codes are like barcodes, except it is easy to create and can be read by anyone with a smartphone. As a creator, you can put your personal message in the code. It can be any text,...
April 2011
1 post
January 2011
5 posts
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t...”
– Polaroid Inventor Edwin Land on the 5000 Steps to Success | Brain Pickings
“Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders...”
– Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven B. Johnson. (via dumplingboy)
December 2010
6 posts
“We can’t be scoreboard watching and worrying about every team in the...”
– Bill Belichick (on rivals)
November 2010
10 posts
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience...”
– Quote: Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never… - (37signals)
“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that...”
– What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
3 posts
Differentiating your store
What makes your store different? Are you sourcing from the same show and carrying the same brands as other stores?
Coco Chanel aptly said, “In order to be irreplaceable one must be different.”
Branded goods have a pull effect. They bring customers in the store, but also make the store similar to other stores.
Our personalization and private label programs are designed to allow stores to...
August 2010
5 posts
“less TV, more reading
less shopping, more outdoors
less clutter, more space...”
– http://zenhabits.net/brief-guide/