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Savvy teenagers like Ellen Knapek, 15, a sophomore at Ursuline Academy in Dallas, tend not to buy a ready-made decor from just one vendor. They like to shop around. When her mom remarried in August, Ellen got a new room as part of the deal. "Mom told me I could do whatever I wanted, within reason," says Ellen. Her light-aqua room has a surfboard headboard from PBteen, pastel paper lamps from Pier 1 and a surfer-theme picture frame from Old Navy. Not everything is from a chain store. Ellen found a hula-girl lamp at a Galveston...
...trade and came away with a strong focus on customer input. His REINS International fast-food empire has now grown to 1,080 locations. (McD's has 3,821 in Japan.) New footholds in Los Angeles and Taiwan mark the latest expansion: Nishiyama hopes to become a top vendor in the U.S. and China. "It's a pretty modest goal," he says. --Reported by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo...
...most important, lesson: gather as many free mugs, bags, t-shirts, thermoses, Tupperware sets and pens, and enter as many raffles for free gear as is humanly possible. It is near impossible to leave such an event without at least one bag with a giant vendor logo filled to the brim with such items, which one can then distribute to friends and family as birthday and holiday gifts. If your significant other asks what the “3-Com” on the stainless steel coffee mug means, just tell them it’s your new pet name...
...more interesting than the culture of the show is the fact that it translates into serious business off the exhibit floor. Indeed, the gift of a five-dollar t-shirt on the part of a vendor might be returned with a $50,000 purchase by an information technology manager. Businesses call it customer relationship management (CRM for short), or “touch” or leveraging relationships. Whatever you call it, the concept is simple: even when the business involves tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, transactions are still a person-to-person affair, and flattery will...
...DiGiovanni says that landlords do give consideration to what kind of businesses are best for the Square. He says that his agency gave Real Taco the space formerly occupied by Breugger’s Bagels in the Garage last year, instead of cell phone vendor Nextel, which offered a higher bid for the location...