| Helping the jewellery-impaired male
Or if you subscribe to the Bob Dylan manifesto, everybody must get Stoned. As in Terri Michael Stoned Originals, a line of jewellery available online at terrimichael.com. “But I never inhale," she quips. “We Boomers are a fun generation," reasons Michael, a former radio personality on EZ Rock, 97.3 “I may be getting older but my attitude is rock and roll. In the nursing home, I'll be listening to Led Zeppelin." Michael used to be on air — now she is online. And it seems to be in the air. Laura Goldstein was an entertainment publicist for 23 years — her last gig was doing press for The Lord of the Rings symphony with Howard Shore at Roy Thomson Hall — and for the last three years, she's been selling her jewellery online at mashumashu.com.
Wal-Mart changing merchandise to become customer-specific
CHICAGO - Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.After blanketing rural America, Wal-Mart is pushing into big cities with a new strategy: catering to local shoppers - in this case, black and Hispanic customers in a West Side Chicago neighborhood - while making efforts to help other local businesses survive.There is a lot riding on Wal-Mart's success at this store that opened last September, both for the struggling neighborhood and the company.Chicago is the biggest city Wal-Mart has entered, but only after a long battle over worker pay and benefits and concerns that it would crush local businesses - the same issues that have dogged it for years and prevented it from cracking New York City and other markets.The retail giant has long been criticized by union-backed groups that claim the company pays poverty wages, runs small businesses out of town and pushes employees onto tax-funded public health care.Wal-Mart denies those allegations.wal-martFrom C1"Wal-Mart has to show that it is willing and committed to forming a true relationship with that (Chicago) community that goes beyond a big retailer that sells socks cheaper than anybody else," said Steven Silvers, a corporate reputation management expert with consultancy GBSM Inc.
New Look for the Ocean Grove Resort
St Augustine, FL, March 04, 2007 --(PR.COM)-- The Ocean Grove Resort has taken on a new look for its web site. Located in St Augustine Florida, the Ocean Grove Resort relied on Coolcat Inc. The technology Service Company, with offices in NY, DC and FL, has a modular approach to designing web sites. The new site for http://oceangroveresort.com is hosted out of The Coolcat Inc Data Center in Georgia. Coolcat Inc’s modular approach reduces the over head cost of design time by utilizing hundreds of design pieces that clients can mix and match from their on line catalogue. This allows clients to personalize a hi-profile easy to navigate web site. Turn around time from design to finish production for a client is about two weeks. Coolcat Inc prides it self on being able to deliver projects on time, and on budget.
If at first you don't shop in Paris, try again on Internet
While I'm certainly not the first person to come back from Paris suffering from an attack of post-traumatic shopping syndrome, I think my recent case was worse than that of the average traveler.
That's because I bought practically nothing rather than too much.
There I was last month, tromping around a city of tiny, perfect shops where proprietors, who behaved more like museum curators, had painstakingly amassed and arranged world-class collections of everything from vintage photo frames to rare 1920s-era Gibson mandolins. Rather than load my suitcase with beautifully painted wooden toys, long-lashed baby dolls and crisp table linens, I came home empty-handed.
Well, nearly empty-handed. Too overwhelmed by the profusion and by the jet lag to shop, I called home one day.
SF at center of new tech boom
Their lease in Palo Alto about to expire, executives of music Web site Imeem Inc. scoured several Bay Area cities for a new headquarters. After a four-month search, they decided on an office in San Francisco, conveniently near a raft of their company's business partners, including an independent record label and radio station. Lobbying by employees was also a factor: Most workers already lived in the city and dreaded commuting to Silicon Valley. "In San Francisco, we get the engineering talent, we get the marketing talent and the quality of life is really good," said Steve Jang, vice president of marketing and business development for Imeem, now based in a converted warehouse in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. "Even if there were a lower rent and better office space somewhere else, it wouldn't make sense to go there." For technology companies, San Francisco is -- once again -- the place to be.
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