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Announcing two new brands! We are happy to announce the addition of two grand UK pottery lines, Burleigh Pottery, the last remaining true transferware maker in England, and Hartley Greens and Co, makers of handmade creamware and pierced ware, since 1781. More to come, but we'll be showing these on Tuesday in NY at the Gift Show!
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We enjoyed this article by Deborah Needleman which appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Our store is known for crafting many of the trends mentioned in this aricle, including tips 1 and 9. The porcelain monkeys she praises are by Mottahedeh ($145).
10 Odd, Yet Essential, Elements of Style
Decorating today may be more relaxed, but that means it's up to you to give your home spirit and charm
The era of the perfect home has passed. This is
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Please see below. This article from today's Wall St. Journal explores the expectation for free shipping when buying online.
My advice to clients:
- Let's better promote our free shipping offer for orders made online.
- Let's e-mail a coupon to past customers either for an amount off the purchase, or something about free shipping.
- Can we lower our free shipping baseline, or offer a free upgrade to quicker shipping? aka: 2 day shipping?
We can start ...
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An article by Barbara Thau in HFN from June 2008 points out that while Williams-Sonoma, parent company of Pottery Barn and West Elm, is facing shrinking sales, the company is still investing in the web.
Excerpt:
"Williams-Sonoma Inc.’s net revenues decreased 4.4 percent to $781.8 million. Net earnings fell 42 percent to $10.4 million.
Direct-to-customer net revenues, which includes catalog and Internet revenues, fell 4.0 percent to $348.2 million.
Across...
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This past August Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. captured the crown jewel of the publishing word by purchasing
The Wall Street Journal from the Bancroft family for $5 billion. What does this event have to do with us in the tabletop industry? I propose that there is a lot the industry can learn from Murdoch's coup. The main lesson is that investing in technology-and in particular online operations-is ...
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