Tuesday, December 31
&
Wednesday, January 1
Monday, December 30, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Are YOU a Belieber?
In the Theatres NOW!
Justin Bieber's Believe (2013) PG
A backstage and on-stage look at Justin Bieber during his rise to super stardom.
From IMDb.com:
THE BUZZ: Justin Bieber's delayed adolescence is tough to stomach and few of his behaviors/recent outbursts are unscripted, but his Never Say Never documentary was excellent. Seriously, it converted many people we know not into Beliebers per se - maybe more "realizers" of his innate talent as a musician and how it was nurtured into the performer he is today. Being a young pop star has never been anything but an icky business, and we probably don't need two documentaries about this particular subject, but we're hoping that JB survives the next couple years without a spectacular crash, then sheds his questionable mentors, joins the Peace Corps, and re-emerges as a jazz drummer. That's all we want for Christmas.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
How a 15-year-old entrepreneur got her product into Nordstrom...
She launched her business two years ago, but Houston teenager Madison
Robinson has yet to face something most new entrepreneurs do:
rejection. Every store buyer she has approached has placed an order for
her Fish Flops for Kids shoe brand.
Robinson
came up with the idea for her sea-creature-adorned flip-flops with
battery-operated lights when she was just 8, living at the beach in
Galveston Island, Tex. Her dad Dan, a former banker turned t-shirt
designer, helped her turn her drawings into a product and get samples
made. More than 30 stores placed orders the first time they exhibited at
a trade show, so he hired an overseas manufacturer and started shipping
in May 2011.
Launched with “friends and family” financing, the enterprise is already
profitable, the elder Robinson says. The shoes now sell online, in
various retail boutiques, and at 60 Nordstrom stores nationwide
for around $20 a pair. They’re also coming soon to FlipFlopShops.com,
and Macy’s buyers in New York recently asked Madison to design a line
for women. More than 60,000 pairs sold in 2012, making for retail sales
of at least $1.2 million. That's not all Fish Flops' income; the
Robinsons sell wholesale. But Dan Robinson says it's safe to say that
his daughter, who is about to complete 9th grade, has already socked away enough profits to cover her college tuition.
The 15-year-old draws all of her own designs and chooses color
combinations digitally, but has also learned how to pack shipments,
stock the warehouse, explain her pricing, host a tradeshow booth, and
make a sales pitch.
But to get into Nordstrom, Robinson employed an old-fashioned sales technique. “I wrote a letter to the buyers,” she told a Houston Fox reporter. “I didn’t think I would get in, but I did.”
What’s next for the Fish Flops founder? After summer break she’s looking forward to taking a 10th
grade business and finance class. She also plans to study business in
college. “Eventually,” she says, “I want to do something by myself.”
Meantime, however, Dad says the Fish Flops brand is “just getting
started.”
Monday, December 23, 2013
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