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30
Dec

Maybe it’s time to start a dialog about the concept of “Loyalty” as it relates to the business of business.

We are seeing an increasing amount of web chatter at Loyalty360.org about the value of loyalty marketing programs.  It reminds me of the old trading stamp programs like Gold Bond and S&H Green Stamps that were popular for three decades.  They vanished rather quickly.  Loyalty...
28
Dec

Women’s shoes as an economic barometer.

Thanks to those of you who answered [Wednesday’s] blog question about the correlation between women’s heel heights and the economy. We definitely had some interesting responses and the results are not what you might expect; in fact, it is an inverse relationship. The IBM research...
21
Dec

Can women’s shoes predict the economy? Weigh in

According to Susan Reda, editor of nrf.com, they can. She cites research from IBM Global Business Services that draws a distinct correlation between the height of women’s shoes and economic upturns and downturns. So here’s the question: Does the height of women’s heels go up or...

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