Lululemon is adding a paid membership service called Studio that offers access to digital classes and gives discounts on in-person classes and apparel. The apparel company suggests it may also offer member-exclusive events.
Companies are often taking this approach: offer unlimited access to a digital service, bundle in discounts and other peripheral perks, and charge a flat monthly fee. (Lululemon is charging $39/month.)
Many in the retail industry are seeking to launch a paid ...
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In the early 2000s, the board game Cranium became a hit. The game combined elements of Scrabble and Pictionary with the goal of helping more people enjoy playing a game. Richard Tait, who created Cranium and sold it to Hasbro in 2008 for $77.5m, passed away in July. Like Mr. Tait, I had been a paperboy, but he went beyond what I ever offered: he came up with a new service that sold breakfast sandwiches along his newspaper route. He increased profits and made customers happier. ...
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Fall is around the corner and we'll be spending more time indoors with engaging games. One of the oldest and most-loved board games has a fresh, new look from MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). Distinguished by an uplifting colorful design inside and out, this high-quality beechwood box backgammon set, is a fun best seller. Stop in the at Shadyside store to check it out.
Game night calls for a versatile bowl of uncomplicated and straightforward design ... with unmistakable Beatriz Ball flair!
The multifunctional Beatriz Ball SOHO Organic bowl is the essence of versatility and is equally at home with your casual dinnerware or dressed up for a party. Essential for game night, movie night, or slumber party snacking. Sustainably handmade of a top quality, FDA safe, easy-care, oven and freezer friendly aluminum alloy.
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In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon, who plays a handsome MIT janitor moonlighting as a math savant (can one say, “Hollywood career vehicle”?), woos a young lady (played by the actress Minnie Driver) by outmaneuvering a few competing, obnoxious cads. When Damon’s character gets the girl's telephone number, he proudly shows it to the other guys and boasts, with his South Boston access, “How 'bout ‘dem apples?” I imagine Tim Cook imitating this...
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My friend works at the Swiss running shoemaker ON. She recently texted me and suggested I try their running shoes. Three weeks later, I was handling two boxes of their Swiss engineered shoes. On one ON shoe, there is a little Swiss flag and the words “Swiss Engineering” printed. When I get a pair of Nike’s, they don’t say "Beaverton-engineering" or "US-engineering." Nor do Adidas shoes proclaim “German engineering.” ...
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About two weeks ago in Charleston, SC, in spin class where I sounded like I was getting a hair transplant, I enjoyed being at once together with my friends in the class and yet competing with them. When they peddled harder and stood up, I wanted to also. Our competing didn't mean that there was one winner and everyone else lost. It wasn’t a zero-sum game. In that spin class, we all won. After that class, we all felt great. Competition is an ...
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This past weekend on the way to Florida to visit my brothers, I read about Squarespace’s advertising history. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/business/how-did-squarespace-know-podcasts-would-get-this-big.html). In 2009, Anthony Casalena, the founder of Squarespace, paid $20,000 to advertise on a tech podcast. While that was a lot for a small, young company (Casalena had started his business just six years earlier in a dorm room in 2003), Casalena said the ...
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A very large table serves as the new heart of the home. With a big table, one end can be devoted to 'work' and 'school,' and the other end can be used for dining, games and entertaining.
All this time at the table calls for a bowl of uncomplicated and straightforward design ... with unmistakable Beatriz Ball flair.
The multifunctional Beatriz Ball SOHO Organic bowl is the essence of versatility and is equally at home with your casual dinnerware or ...
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Football Season Isn't Over Yet!
Score big with serving pieces from Beatriz Ball’s SIERRA MODERN Collection. Presented in proprietary metallic finishes of gold, rose gold and gunmetal, the MVP (Most Valuable Pieces) are luxe, modern, and richly textured.
he durable items will not chip, peel or stain, and the ultimate “extra point,” they’re dishwasher safe. Go team!
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Last February e-commerce company Shopify Inc. replaced the “Ottawa, Canada” dateline that began its press releases and earnings reports with a strange new one: “Internet, Everywhere.” The geographical shift came at the insistence of Shopify’s founder and chief executive officer, Tobi Lütke, who tends to view such matters through the prism of cold, hard logic. In May 2020, only a few months into the pandemic, he’d made the early, seemingly rash decision to...
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In the book Great by Choice, Jim Collins posits that processes are key to an organization's success. As an example, he cites John Wooden, the NCAA championship-winning UCLA basketball coach, who trained athletes on processes that included everything from shooting to tying one’s shoelaces. In practicing, a player may perfect their shoelace tying and do thousands of repetitive free-throw shots. When we watch a game from the nosebleed seats like me (...what can I say, I’m ...
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It’s that time of year when we gather for Fall Entertaining. We would love your Customers incredible photos and videos celebrating the season by showing off your friends and family getting together to share appetizers, gathering for drinks or a meal, or your own get-together idea—showing camaraderie, congeniality, and what a treat it is to be together, for a chance win! *Retailers & their families are not eligible.
$100 each will be donated to Feeding America on behalf of 6 ...
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Family activities and celebrations call for a versatile bowl of uncomplicated and straightforward design ... with unmistakable Beatriz Ball flair.
The multifunctional Beatriz Ball SOHO Organic bowl is the essence of versatility and is equally at home with your casual dinnerware or dressed up for a party. Essential for game night, movie night, or slumber party snacking.
Sustainably handmade of a top quality, FDA safe, easy-care, oven and freezer friendly aluminum alloy.
I spotted this board game 'Anti-Monopoly' at a garage sale. The character on the front has an uncanny resemblance to Jeff Bezos, head of Amazon which many people consider to be a monopoly in a few sectors from online shopping to cloud-based computing.
Summer—with its many activities and celebrations--calls for a versatile bowl of uncomplicated and straightforward design ... with unmistakable Beatriz Ball flair.
The multifunctional Beatriz Ball SOHO Organic bowl is the essence of versatility and is equally at home with your casual dinnerware or dressed up for a party. Essential for game night, movie night, or slumber party snacking.
Sustainably handmade of a top quality, FDA safe, easy-care, oven and freezer friendly aluminum ...
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Amazon Prime, Grindr, and Instagram do not seem to have much in common with each other. But, a recent study by PCloud found that these apps are some of the biggest 'data burglars': they are downloading our data at an alarming rate.
Many brands and retailers in our industry promote Facebook, yet Facebook and its sister company Instagram are the leading thieves of personal data. It’s akin to them suggesting their friend sit next to a digital pick pocket.
Game on for family entertaining! Enjoy a little friendly competition with Backgammon, a game of strategy, skill, and luck, that is a classic pastime. The Michael Aram Special Edition Backgammon Set will be a treasured piece of your game collection. Made of wood, black nickelplate, nickelplate, and suede, this board game will last generations. (Also available in a Luxury Marble version).
Stop in at Glassworks in Shadyside to check out this quality-made set.
A top design trend for 2021 is for big, multi-purpose tables.
In this time of working and schooling from home, a very large table serves as the new heart of the home. With a big table, one end can be devoted to 'work' and 'school,' and the other end can be used for dining, games and entertaining.
All this time at the table calls for a bowl of uncomplicated and straightforward design ... with unmistakable Beatriz Ball flair.
The multifunctional Beatriz Ball SOHO Organic ...
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Score big with serving pieces from Beatriz Ball’s SIERRA MODERN Collection. Presented in proprietary metallic finishes of gold, rose gold and gunmetal, the MVP (Most Valuable Pieces) are luxe, modern, and richly textured. The durable items will not chip, peel or stain, and the ultimate “extra point,” they’re dishwasher safe. Go team!
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