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		<title>Shoes, Sea Monkeys, and Slow Death!</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/05/shoes-sea-monkeys-and-slow-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twig Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retailers seem to be after sales in all price points. High-End retailers looking for low tier product. So where do you find the quality in that? The beginning of what can be a long journey to bringing retailers back to the core - offering the Best Quality Product On The Market.]]></description>
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		<title>The Constant Gardener</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/04/the-constant-gardener/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is talent out of fashion? Can it be due to management and cultivation? We talked about this with Llyod Lippman - President of Retail Marketing Society - and how it relates to the Footwear segment of the retail industry.]]></description>
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		<title>Communication and Stakeholders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lenny Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Information does not take sides and inherently should be the &#8220;facts&#8221; that are considered between all stakeholders .”         -- Lenny Holden
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Communication. It breaks down. It gets misinterpreted and misrepresented. Language and syntax and structure and tone are all relevant to the relationship that fuels communication. We are all victims of lack of communication. We are all guilty of over-co&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Observations from a Road Man</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/04/observations-from-a-road-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twig Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday, I spoke with a major manufacturer who has seen retailers put his customers through turmoil and stress under the conditions of the economy, orders, production and payment. He and I talked immensely about the importance of holding on to “Company Culture” and how we need this to communicate our business, brand and operations. New brands are getting this &#8211; coming up the ranks with reasonable smal&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A Footwear Designer&#8217;s Double Life: Joshua Wong</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/04/a-footwear-designers-double-life-joshua-wong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footwear Design is not the only thing a Footwear/Shoe Designer can do, you know. When they are off the clock, they have the most interesting “side jobs” that sort of round out their personalities and reveal “who they are.”

So we set out to feature some talented Footwear Designers in this ongoing series and expose their secret double-life. From fashion illustration to literature and visual art, the designers featured in this series are expressing imaginative thought while constructing the future for our industry.]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Customization</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/04/domestic-customization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customization has been a pre-requisite for some brand as consumers spend more time and money applying personalization to products like cell phones, iPads and other personal electronic devises. Even the handbag and baby industry provide some kind of customized item. It has been the best thing to happen to the consumer product market since engraving was commercialized.
How cool is it to be able to choose colors that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Professionals + Development Training = RAMP</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/04/professionals-development-training-ramp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
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Lately I have had the pleasure of talking with some industry professionals about topics that included words like “roles,” “position,” and “cultivating talent.” It struck me that this was the same story that presented itself in my many conversations throughout the past few weeks.
When you look at these words – they boomerang back to an idea that was thought to be left behind in the years earning a college&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>And America’s Net Top Importer Is…</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/and-americas-net-top-importer-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
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Footwear Distributors &#38; Retailers of America has put out their Footwear Sourcing Forecast that goes far ahead into 2016. The document opens with: “After years of relying on a China-first, and often China-only, model, U.S. footwear companies are faced with a changing reality of higher prices, shortages in labor, increased compliance costs and unstable consumer demand. This changing paradigm&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>I Have Lost The Ability to BS Someone</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/i-have-lost-the-ability-to-bs-someone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twig Ken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shoebizness.com/?p=12937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently spoken with someone who I have come to admire deeply in this industry and our conversation topic (as always) has been about the product on the market today. When we reflect on our positions in the corporate environment – we have to (as Ken Proctor states below) – “applaud wildly for mediocre product.”  We have to care less about why we are in the business and go with what will make dollars and cents, not sens&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Shoes Beyond Shoes</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/shoes-beyond-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
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       It would seem that amid this diverse economic climate that we are enduring, that companies cease and desist with all new product development. Not so.
For some footwear companies &#8211; even with the ease of the new lowered tariff schedules and taxes from Vietnam and China – there is still that looming whiplash of over development, charge backs, product returns, poor quality control and a freeze o&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>What can Mister Rogers Neighborhood teach us about Customer service?</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/what-can-mister-rogers-neighborhood-teach-us-about-customer-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/what-can-mister-rogers-neighborhood-teach-us-about-customer-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched a vintage episode of Mister Rogers Neighborhood with my children on www.pbs.org (go to Video and find Mister Rogers in the Shows area). I wanted to expose them to some of the shows I watched as a kid. However, I stumbled upon something so valuable that I had to share.
This was episode #1506 and Mister Rogers needed a new pair of dress shoes. He decided to go to “Wagner Quality Shoes” in Pittsburgh, PA.  Ap&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Shoe People Helping Shoe People</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/shoe-people-helping-shoe-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/shoe-people-helping-shoe-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[210 Footwear Foundation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shoebizness.com/?p=12865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Ten Footwear Foundation Update
I received an email from, Joann Hoxha - Marketing Coordinator at Two Ten Footwear Foundation, in response to Shoebizness&#8217; re-launch. Shoebizness has a great relationship with this wonderful organization and although it is not a full feature on any particular subject matter &#8211; just an update, I felt is was aproprient to post this letter to get everyone up to speed&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Thought Provoking People on Hyperdrive</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/thought-provoking-people-on-hyperdrive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/thought-provoking-people-on-hyperdrive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it like to move about the industry in hyperdrive? To hit the pavement of New York City sporting titles such as; “President”, “VP of Sales”, “Manufacturer” and “VP of Brand Development” – all in one career? How can one adjust from selling women’s dress shoes to launching the platform of Urban street footwear? I want to find out; how we can do all of these things and be successful? So I went to the one person I know who&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Product Life Management</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/product-life-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/product-life-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shoebizness.com/?p=12842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the other things we have to concern ourselves with; sales, marketing, who is buying out who, keeping up employee morale, we cannot forget about the cycle of our footwear product. When it comes down to it – shoes are a product. Just like a television or a car or a phone. It is a product we sell to the consumer to use. But we must take a look at the back story when it comes to product development. How can we assure product d&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Pending&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/patent-pending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shoebizness.com/2012/03/patent-pending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when, Homer J. Simpson (of the television cartoon, The Simpsons) would showcase one of his hilarious inventions and shout – “Patent, Pending?” Well, he was inadvertently trying to protect his precious discovery. As a designer or consultant, manufacturing a consumer product like shoes can have you shouting “patent pending” at every meeting these days because you never know if someone is taking a mental&#8230;]]></description>
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