Source: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14583169011 I’ve made a number of references to the location of Foot Locker stand alone stores. I’ve also discussed the location of stores owned by City Gear as a way of showing who sneaker companies are attempting to reach with the multitude of aspirational (shout out Matt Powell for the word aspirational) footwear options…
Originally posted on Housakicks I’m sure many who read this title will get irritated, because as much as most want to claim they buy their sneakers independent of outside influences, we all know that isn’t true. We all have our preferences as it pertains to brands, colors, and style but for the most part, people wear…
Originally posted on Housakicks I was just reading an article on FN about the possibility of drones completely changing the landscape of retail, and I was trying to figure out what that would mean for the sneaker industry, especially for retailers like FTL, Finishline, DTLR to name a few. The average consumer is extremely lazy as it is already; how do I know that?…
Originally posted on Housakicks I’m so glad that I was led to check how well the Air Jordan XXXII performed sales wise this morning. Last week, NPD’s Matt Powell opened a can of worms when He said that Adidas had surpassed Jordan as the #2 selling brandnationwide. There is some truth to his statement but not the…
Originally posted on Housakicks I grew up in Togo, a French speaking country in west Africa where access to signature sneakers like the Ewing Athleticswas almost impossible. You have to remember that this was in the 90’s when the internet was not popular and probably only used exclusively by the military. So the only way I could…
What Nike has done has been written about in books like Just Do It by Donald Katz and Swoosh: Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There, The by J.B. Strasser, which is a book that has insider info on the start of the company. Strasser’s husband was a former insider who went…
I posted this picture during the Kickstarter campaign to show me working out by using a Kinect game to shadowbox. I’m posting it now because it perfectly represents the next step I’m taking in the development of ARCH as a brand and developing my own brand. If you aren’t aware I also operate a blogging…
Wow, it’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you, without a … always nice to start off a post with a little Rakim. I haven’t done an update like this since last year. Whenever I do these reports they remind me that I actually have to work at more than just the testing…
In what has become one of the highlights of my small business experience, I will be guest lecturing at the Fogelman School of Business with Dr. Frances Fabian. The group as always will be a small group of undergraduates majoring in business. I will attempt to keep the cursing down to a minimum and clean…
Instead of writing the marketing report for last month on the ARCH site, I dropped it on my CB Publishing website. If you aren’t familiar with that site, here is a short description: CB Publishing is home to information about entertainment, business and education written by several authors and edited and written by me. I…
This was originally posted in 2011 to the site and is a little dated but is still very relevant. I eventually captured all of these points and place them into One Hour To Wealth: Your Great Idea is Valuable…Get Up and Write It Down!Excuse the baggy gym shorts, lol. I was invited by Dr. Frances Fabian…
