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The Evolution of Citizen Watch

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Citizen’s brand slogan “Better Starts Now” reflects in its never-ending innovation for watch making. From 1926 to 2015 citizen set many benchmark in global watch industry. Citizen invented first GPS satellite synchronized known as “Eco-drive Satellite Wave” in 2011. Here in this infographic, one can view the five most remarkable evolution of citizen watch. In US Open 2015, Citizen became official timekeeper and this is 23rd year as official time keeper of US open tennis championships. Citizen’s

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Affordable Obamacare Insurance for Retailers

If you are a retailer and are worried about what you will have to pay for insurance after the new health care act takes effect, we have good news for you.

To help independent retailers with the potential cost of this and other services, we created US Retail Group.  It is a membership organization with one purpose - to help retailers compete with big box retail by providing them with lower costs on the things they already buy.  By combining a large number of smaller independent retail organization

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MANIERA Magazine Vol 1 Issue 7-March 2013

What do a sea of red cabbages, a film whose plot is decided by the biological reactions of the audience, a mobile phone with a battery that never runs out and London Fashion Week have in common? Answer in this month’s MANIERA! Plus a debut EP from Chameleon,Psychologically inspired photography by Maria Konstanse Bruun, cutest eyelashes ever and so much more.

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Consulting firm Retail Smart Guys (RSG), which provides open-to-buy and inventory planning, is now offering a retail recruiting service just in time to help specialty retailers staff up for the holiday season.

RSG decided to add a new division specializing in recruiting to its suite of services after several clients reported that they “would do anything to find good salespeople.” Dan Jablons, president of Retail Smart Guys, said, “We are always looking for ways to help our customers’ businesses.

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Retail can be a very tough business.  There are lots of pressures, lots of things to do, problems to solve, customers to help, employees to coach, vendors to negotiate with, and that's just before lunch on Monday!

All of us who are part of Retail Smart Guys provide open to buy planning, sure.  But we also find that we have to help in other areas of the business, too.  As retail consultants who are in retail stores every day of our lives, we see the good, the bad, and the ugly in this business.  W

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Never fail another interview!

The Image Academy are launching a brand new comprehensive workshop “Dress for

Success” to help people polish their professional image and equip them with the necessary

skills to making a lasting positive impression and help their business image on a day-to-day

basis.

In the current economic climate anyone out there looking for a job is under double

pressure. There are less career opportunities available which makes the competition even

tougher. So no wonder that sometimes employers judge the candidate

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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The S.M.A.R.T. Way to Care For Your Skin

I'll admit it; I'm terrible when it comes to caring for my skin. Sure I wash it daily and I've always been good at limiting the amount of makeup I put on, but I've never been able to go the extra mile. Exfoliation is like a foreign word to me. Naturally, I've tried it several times and even seen reasonable results, but I've never been able to make it a regular habit.Recently, I made the decision to take better care of my skin. Having said similar things to myself before, I knew I would have to b
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