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Using Consumer Data for Marketing Decisions; “Yeah, We Ought to do More of That.”

Marketing

It’s a bad idea to write something requiring you to talk to the marketing people at snowboard companies during the selling/tradeshow season. But the topic is a critical one. Most companies in this industry don’t do a good a job collecting and utilizing consumer information as they should. They understand that success in a tough market requires it, […]

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Sam And The Gradunzel-Eating Monster; It’s (hopefully) a fairy tale.

Industry Evolution, Skateboarding

Long, long ago in an industry far, far away (cue the heroic music), the sale of moss-covered, three-handled family gradunzels* had taken off. Now, gradunzels had been around for a long time, and they were manufactured by a dedicated group of companies, the founders and owners of which had been among the earliest users of

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