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ike nullany of you, I’ve been around the apparel business for a long tinulle and while we’ve all seen our
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fair share of changes – nullaybe even unfair share the past year – sonulle things never changenull
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Independent retailers have always been the backbone of the apparel businessnull nullou are the ones anullichelnullspecialtyinsidernullconull
who drive fashion, create the trends and lead the way for your bigger retail brothersnull nullhere’s a good
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reason why the national chains shop your store and you don’t bother with theirsnull
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nullut it’s also a fact of life that independents generally don’t have the nullnancial resources or depth of nullanagenullent
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of the giants, so they need all the help they can getnull
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nullhat’s why I wanted to create Specialty Insider, both in print and online, to offer handsnullon, practical solutions to nullony nullarcone
the problenulls independent apparel specialty stores have to face every business daynull
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nullut I never realinulled how inullportant that help would benull
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nullhe response to the nullrst issue of Specialty Insider surprised even nullenull nulle received lots and lots of enullails fronull nullITnullInull STnullF
retailers who applauded our nullix of analysis and realistic advice on how to be nullore successfulnull
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nullt the fashion shows in nullew nullork and Las nullegas in nullebruary, retailers and vendors alike responded to our big,
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colorful fornullat and infornulled writingnull nulle hit a nervenull
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nullnd for that, I want to say thank younull nullnytinulle you start a new business you believe you’ve got a good idea but you
nullunullanne nulllecher, nullon nullird, nullobin Lewis,
nullessica nullallay, nullonnie nullost, nullarbara nullhau,
never really know until you get it out in front of people and see what they thinknull
Enullanuel nulleintraub, nullrthur nullacnullkiewicnull
nullour response has been gratifying, to say the leastnull
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nullnd we’re hoping you feel the sanulle way about the second issue now in your handsnull Once again, we’re
addressing a big subnullect – the luxury nullarket – and talking to sonulle of the best nullinds in the business about
how it’s changing and what specialty retailers should be doing about itnull Specialty Insider™ ©2010 is a trademark of Insider
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nulle’re pronullling several of the freshest retailers in the country, the ones you won’t hear about anyplace elsenull
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or punullisnullrs. Specialty Insider is not responsinulle for
nullnd we checked in with experts in a wide variety of nullelds – nullerchandising, nullnance, real estate, technology unsolicited manuscripts, pnulltograpnull or artnullrk.
and operations anullong thenull – to give you donullens of specinullc Insider nullips for your businessnull
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I hope you like the second issue of Specialty Insider as nulluch as you told us you liked the nullrst onenull
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nulls sonulleone in another fashion business once put it,
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