Author Archives: Brian

How The Internet Is Hurting The Stationery Industry and How The Stationery Show Is Helping Retailers Battle Back

The Digital Age has created so many opportunities for an influx of new business models for invitation selling ranging from digital printing, electronic Invitations, specialized niches such as Same Sex Weddings and Scroll Invitations. International companies are going after the US market with unique papers. Internet companies are emerging that sell strictly components for DYI Read more …

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What Author Seth Godin Told Me About The Stationery Industry

In 2011 marketing guru Seth Godin was the keynote speaker at the Futures Conference that took place at the beginning of the National Stationery Show. As a former National Stationery Show advisory board member and 5 time speaker, several months before the show I had contacted him offering my assistance in sharing with him some Read more …

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The Lost Weekend

“The Lost Weekend” was the 1945 Academy Award Winner. It starred Ray Milland as a charming but pathetic writer who was as worse an alcoholic that can ever be depicted. The movie focuses on one weekend when he is supposed to be focused on writing a book but is on an ongoing bender of fueling Read more …

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20/20 Has No Vision When It Comes To The Wedding Industry

I watched ABC 20/20′s show on weddings that aired Friday January 18th. I was happy to see Wedding MBA get some exposure. And their clip of Wedding MBA was using one of Chris Evan’s sales seminar. However they were showing it to try to show how wedding professionals are trained to exploit the bride. Fortunately, Read more …

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