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Limited Potential? No way!

· Limited Brands is exhibiting unlimited potential (LTD $25.39 Open). Its performance was up 5% in May and 32% YTD (Remember the banks barely pay you 1 – 2% in interest). Limited Brands, an explosive company with products of personal indulgence range from lingerie to perfume in more than 2,900 U.S. Stores and 80 countries worldwide. LTD is the parent company of some of the world’s best fashion retail brands: Victoria’s Secret, Victoria’s Secret Pink (targets the college

Left: Mark Fast (Photo via Flickr/kimberly-lyn); Right: Mark Fast for Topshop (Photo via Fashionista)

Don’t know about you, but we use fast-fashion fave Topshop almost strictly for bargain hunting. But with their new collab collection by critical darling Mark Fast, the Brit retailer is asking us invest a bit more cash in their trendy wears than usual. Priced between $100 and $185, the five-piece, neo-knitwear line sure is sexy, but will shoppers actually snap it up when it hits racks in 10 days?

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P&G Beauty Summit | Image via WWD

If you’re an emerging designer, you might want to add “Twittersphere,” “Facebooking”, and “trending topics” to “ruching”, “interfacing” and the other sewing terms of your everyday vocabulary. According to WWD, there are 126 million blogs on the Internet today and women, the prime target for designers, use a whopping 84% of all social-networking sites. It’s an unprecedented opportunity for fashion-industry hopefuls to engage with a worldwide community of customers

Image via issimo moment's Flikr

There’s no doubt that technology and social media have transformed the retail landscape. Exactly how we survived without every, single product in the world available with just a click of a button we may
never know. More than that, e-commerce sites and social media marketing tools such as Facebook
and Twitter are quickly becoming essential for reaching out to new and old retail customers.

But even with all these massive changes, we can’t help but wonder what’s around

About a month ago now, I had contacted Hal Bastian, who is the Senior Vice President & Director of Economic Development for the Downtown Center Business Improvement District. He’s an incredible man, and he has tons of great ideas to bring business to downtown LA. Retail Smart Guys is going to be working with him in some aspect (in fact, we are doing an event there on June 24, more on that soon…).

Hal invited us to take a tour of downtown LA that he does monthly. I signed up because I realized tha

I'd like to tell you that this idea came to me while "contemplating in my study" or something as academic and erudite as that. Truth is, it just sorta came to me while working with a prospective client. And after it hit me, I realized that this is the basis for survival for all of us.

The person I was working with was in tears. Too many bills, not enough sales, and their retail business was in great danger. This person was in a constant state of unbridled worry, sleepless nights, and economic tor

A lot of our clients ask us about taking on consignment goods. At first, this seems like a dream come true - you get goods in the store that you don't have to pay for until they sell. And if they don't sell, you just send them back. Great, right? Well, maybe...

There are a few definite downsides to consignment goods that retailers should be aware of:
- Sure, you can send the goods back, but that means you are paying double freight for stuff that didn't sell.
- What is the cost to you to have your s

You know you’re supposed to be blogging, but you’re not. You don’t have time, and besides you’re a retailer not a writer. We get it. That’s why you should let us blog for you.

All you have to do is send us a little info about what you want to promote. We'll write the post for you, send it to you to approve, and then post it on your blog and several other blogs and forums on the internet.

What if you don't have a blog? Then we'll make one for you, free of charge.

Better still, each blog post is so r

We got a lot of great response to the launch of www.retailblogging.com. We also got a lot of questions. So I figured I'd answer them all in this post.

WRITING: The writing is being done by a professional writer and editor, who has many years of experience in fashion magazines. Her writing is stellar, and if you'd like to see samples of it you can check out her own blog at stuff2eat.blogspot.com.

POSTING: If you have already set up your own blog, we post to that. If you don't have a blog but want o

Retail Smart Guys, a consulting firm specializing in assisting independent retail stores and boutiques with inventory planning, marketing, and systems, announced today that Jonathan Schwartz has joined the company. Schwartz will be providing consulting services to specialty retailers in the metro New York-New Jersey area.

“I’ve known Jonathan Schwartz for more than 20 years, and it is a ‘dream come true’ for me to work with him,” said Dan Jablons, founder of Retail Smart Guys. “Jonathan has an

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