I have the luxury of training some very successful people and the below insights are always a common denominator. 1) After EVERY exercise ALWAYS stretch. It creates long lean muscles. 2) There is always something new to learn. Never, ever get bored. If you are, it is your own fault.
For retailers, the refrigerated and freezer sections of supermarkets and grocery stores are notorious trouble zones. Open multi-deck cases consume a huge amount of energy and allow temperatures to fluctuate. The typical multi-deck meat or dairy case is defrosted four times a day (vs. once a day for a...
Consumers are spending a lot of time being social online, and that’s probably one of the reasons you built a Facebook page for your store. Promoting in the places your customers hang out makes good marketing sense, but the real payoff occurs when your online fans step into your store...
Though far from a techie, I love hanging out with them. So, I am delighted in my fix this year at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. At the dazzling show filled with USBs, monitors and appliances, my eye goes to the super- useful bauble. There were...
How sustainable fishing is increasingly important to the supplement segment.In today’s health-conscious world, consumers are interested in doing everything they can to achieve maximum health and wellness. This trend is certainly playing out in the market for omega-3 supplements, which has experienced significant growth in recent years, and all signs...
The food and beverage industry is under siege. The same group of plaintiffs’ lawyers who extracted billions from tobacco companies has publicly declared war on food and beverage manufacturers, joining others in filing hundreds of class action lawsuits during the last two years. Lawyers filing those lawsuits demand that...
We believe in cooperating with nature. Call us old-fashioned, but at Uncle Matt’s, we think that soil health is the key to producing crops that have better yields and less disease, and are grown not only without the use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, but also without the use of...
If you’re like most retailers, you’ve already built your natural products business a home on Facebook and Twitter, but are you on Pinterest yet? If not, consider this statistic: The average consumer visiting an online store from Pinterest spends $179. That’s 123% more than consumers coming from Facebook and 159% more...
Excerpted from "Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia What the Drug Companies Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t Know"Like other health conditions, the most effective ways to improve sleep quality are based upon identifying and addressing factors that impair sleep. For example, let’s take a look at the most common form...
2 million, 5 million, 10 million? It really doesn’t matter. The numbers will be much higher than what was predicted or expected. What am I talking about? The iPhone 5 of course. Did you stay up until the wee hours of the morning to pre-order yours? I hate to...
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