Twitter Action of the Day @msshoebizness!!
by Mary Krajick
With Pearl and Company’s first Professional Girls Night Out tomorrow I’m feeling the excitment for women in the fashion industry. Farylrobin wins for my favorite tweet of the day leading to an article from the Guardian by Jess Carter-Morley about women designers and their “feminine minimalism…no fuss, no fanfare, just great clothes.” I’m all for this view on fashion, kee…
Twitter Action of the Day @msshoebizness!
by Mary Krajick
The Twitter Action of the Day is back! For those of you who haven’t see it, Julia started it last year to share her favorite tweets of the day and post her favorite as the winner. As a twitter newbie I can’t believe how much fun it is to see what everyone is up to via tweets!! I’m so excited to be starting this up again since social media is a vital part of any industry today. Honestly, I thought this was go…
210 displays their Julia Veli dress!
by JULIA
Thanks to Ross Evans for sharing this pic on his Twitter page of the dress I designed for the YP 210 event in June, on display in their Boston offices! I am so happy they like it and so happy I was able to make the contribution!!
New Shoe Website! ShoeGazr – Check it out!
by JULIA
I was introduced to a brand spankin new site called shoegazr.com by a shoe industry fan and come to find out they are based right here out of Miami! I spent some time on the phone with one of the founders, Steve Clark and it seems they have a great concept in the works! I asked him to share a little bit about the site but I recommend you check it out for yourself and if you are interested in learning more, you can email: contact@sh…
Twitter Action @msshoebizness It’s a Zappos day!
by JULIA
Damn, what a day for Zappos! First I featured them in my video of the day, then Tony is listed as the 7th most powerful person in the footwear industry, then the announcement that their deal with Amazon officially closed, then Mike is featured on Shoebizness and just now as I logged into Twitter, none other than Bestsey Johnson tweeted this: xoBetseyJohnson Excited to present Zappos.com with the “Retailor of the Y…
Trivia of the Week
by JULIA
Thanks to Nicole Rivers from FFANY and Faye Rapoport DesPres from Aetrex who responded to my plea on Twitter yesterday asking for help with the trivia this week. From Nicole: Where are most shoes manufactured? What is the difference between between the d’orsay and an espadrille? What’s a choncleta? From Faye: Where did the name “sneaker” originate? From Shoes.com via Twitter: Ap…
Aetrex and Twitter: It’s all about People By Faye Rapoport DesPres
by JULIA
Our new friend Faye Rapoport Des Pres Gosh I know I sound like a broken record sometimes, but I just have so much fun meeting interesting people in so many random ways and how cool that I can now say I have had a published writer for The New York Times contribute to my site! (see bio below) I came up with the Twitter Action idea only on Monday and just thought “why not?”….so I browsed through my feed an…
Twitter Action @msshoebizness
by JULIA
This is why Simple won! haha Scary! Just to remind you….I go through my twitter feed and choose the feeds that stand out the most, post them here and then choose my favorite for the day. Also, keep in mind that I have summerized the “tweets” in my own words so you have to click on the brand/person to see all of their action!! I have decided to only choose 10 a day because if not, I would be surfing Twitter al…
Twitter Action – @msshoebizness : )
by JULIA
I thought it might be fun to provide a daily summery of what’s going on in the world of shoes according to my Twitter feed….I have found a lot of cool brands, stores and companies and I only wish I would have jumped on the bandwagon sooner! I had no idea what a great source for information that Twitter was. So here’s what buzzing today and each day I plan to choose a Twitter Winner whose “tweets&#…
Footwear Professionals Network/Shoebizness exceeds 3,000 members!!
by JULIA
We are now at 3,001 member and a special congrats to Don Ernens all the way from Belgium who was the 3,000th member! Unfortunately there is no prize associated with this honor, but how about a picture of fireworks?? We are staying strong as the Internets largest footwear networking group!! On average there are 35 new members a week, so we are continuing to grow. If you are not sure how to utilize the group, you can use it to…
Fun Vote-Who is your favorite designer??
by JULIA
This was posted in the news feed for the LinkedIn Group, Footwear Professionals Network/Shoebizness by one of our members, so I thought I would share. Which, by the way, the LinkedIn group is only 10 members away from being 3,000 with recent people joining from all over the world including, Switzerland, Italy and Bangladesh!! If you still haven’t joined, follow this link: http://www.linkedin.com/groupRe…
Social Media-Reminder!
by JULIA
Twitter – www.twitter.com/msshoebizness LinkedIn GROUP – We are pushing 3,000 Members!!! http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=103836 Facebook Shoebizness Group – http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=60141659723
Tweet Tweet!
by JULIA
Okay, so I finally bit the bullet and got a twitter account. I still don’t know exactly how to benefit from it, but I will figure it out I am sure and I since everyone in the world seems like they are on it, I am sure there is a point. At the very least, now I will be able to update when I am meeting cool people and doing cool things, which hopefully you can tell by my postings, I do a LOT! So if you would like to follow….a…
