Bookstores, Theaters, Newspapers, and Neighborhoods-- The New Urban 'Bland' - 03/26/08 04:53 PM
My bride and I were discussing the changes in our town, in our neighborhood, and in the way kids grow up these days over our coffee this morning as she bemoaned the fact that Bonanza Books is going out of business.  Bonanza-- long the independent new and used book store in downtown Walnut Creek-- is a symbol of our small-town past when people actually went downtown and browsed for goods [like books] instead of browsing for them on their laptops.  Unlike some other shopping, the used bookstore phenomenon specialized in that feeling of elation at actually finding something worthy of buying.  Browsing for a $4 treasure … (5 comments)

Does Your Brokerage Need A Customer Advisory Board? - 03/10/08 06:23 PM
Do you really know what your customers think of you or do you only think you know?  Are you confident enough to bet a significant stake in your company's future based upon your appraisal of how customers perceive your products and services, your pricing and policies, your value to them?  How tuned in to your customers' needs are you really?
For most companies, what they know about how customers truly perceive them is surprisingly less than they think!  And for most companies' marketing organizations, the knowledge base isn't complete enough to risk significant changes in their offerings-new products to introduce, major changes … (1 comments)

Is The "Supersize Me" Generation Starting A Square Footage Diet? - 03/04/08 05:13 PM
My wife and I are in that age bracket where the thought of scaling down in size to have less to clean and less to maintain is a good thing:  we might actually do it one of these days when and if we give up on the dream that our kids will be able to afford to move within a couple of miles of our neighborhood and will visit us frequently with grandchildren.  Not likely-- and certainly less likely any time soon!
Still, I read here locally that developers were reducing the average size of a NEW house in our county, houses typically bought by younger … (7 comments)

 
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