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Category: Spall
Editor Emerson Schwartzkopf’s monthly opinion.
Tender is the Noun?
Today’s downturn may be one of the best things that could happen to the stone trade.
— me, “Down is Good,” Stone Business March 2008.
I suppose, close to three years later, some of you would like to see me eat those words. No salt-and-pepper or gravy, either; just chew ’em up raw.
While There’s Still Time
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
We like to think of stone as the stuff of eternity. We even sell granite, marble and the rest of our wares as materials that will outlast fads, a horde of kids, decades of holiday family dinners and, ultimately, us’
The Doomsayers Among Us
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
Everybody, every now and then, manages to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. Do it over and over, and you’re heading for disaster.
Spall: Get A Charge Out Of …
Boy, what a hotel that was. They stole my towel. – Rodney Dangerfield
In Search of Perfection
By Tom McNall
What’s the price of perfection? How can one attain it, and where can this holy grail of an ideal be found for wholesale?
They Said What?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
When you’re in the business of selling something, people love to talk about the customers … how to find them, how to sell to them, how to keep them.
But when customers actually talk, who listens?
Add It Your Way
Suppose you had a desk full of charts and spreadsheets, and – out of all those numbers – you could write two fact-filled articles with the following headline choices:
U.S. Stone Imports Continue at Lackluster Rate; or
U.S. Stone Industry Gears Up as Imports Gain.
Natural Ire
There’s a word that, for some of you, remains tiresome, if not downright infuriating. And it doesn’t start with an “r” – instead, it’s sustainability.
World of Blurt
For some people, social means the event of the year. For others, it’s shorthand for everyone’s favorite U.S. ID number.
Now, it’s part of the online world. Social media is beyond the buzzword stage and moving into general business strategy.
And, that’s OK for media behemoths like the New York Times and Coca-Cola. But, does it fit for us in the stone trade?