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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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There’s community-based and community-driven. Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. Our downtown L.A.

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All Grown Up And Ready To Pop Up: eTailers Turn To Pop-Up Store Gurus

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For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition. When brands are ready to open up shop, Nejati seeks to help them go from idea to grand opening in about a month. Pop-Up Retail Trends.

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2016 IB Social Media Leaders

Independent Banker

Independent Banker ® magazine recognizes three community banks who have conducted creative, engaging and impactful social media campaigns. This year’s panel of judges evaluated social media campaigns submitted from several community banks across the country before selecting those that received final recognition. Busey Bank.

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When Suds Go X-Border

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According to the Brewers Association’s May/June 2016 edition of The New Brewer magazine, the U.S. New brewery openings now outnumber closings 10 to one as consumers look to small, independent brands to quench their thirst. Like with any cross-border endeavor, however, Long’s operations occasionally run into road blocks.

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Etsy: From Hot To Not To Hot Again

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The thought was that while Etsy didn’t have Amazon’s scale, reach or ubiquitous brand recognition, it did have a very distinct client base on the hunt for more specific and more unique goods. And then Amazon Handmade happened — almost out of nowhere. and around the world.

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Four Ideas on Bank Retail Investment Sales

Jeff For Banks

Bank Investment Consultant magazine recently published the results of a bank/credit union investment sales benchmarking report from Kehrer Bielan Research and Consulting. Little is the operative word here. Bank investment sales is treated as an inconsequential line of business in most financial institutions, in my experience.

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FabFitFun Thinks Outside The (Subscription) Box

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Lifestyle brand FabFitFun has taken something of a circuitous route toward building its retail business. In fact, in its early days nine years ago, it wasn’t a retail operation at all — it was a newsletter. Brands would send us products for editorial review and provide us with VIP gift bags at media events,” he says.

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