In the business of running an MI store, it takes three parts to make the commerce machine run. Obviously, the first part is the store owner. Equally obvious is ...
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Clint Strait, Vice President
Clint Strait is the first third-generation member of h...
Keep it 100. That’s what the cool kids say nowadays when they are saying something that is 100-percent real, unfiltered, sometimes brutal, truth. If you haven’t...
You can read a thousand articles — from content-lite bullet points to detailed, long reads — about advertising in this always-on, socially intense, tech-enabled...
In several past columns, I’ve written about various aspects of the Summer NAMM Show, and why I think it’s still a viable avenue by which to learn about new prod...
In talking with other small music store owners, someone will usually ask “Do you go to NAMM?” The answer frequently includes some variation of “No, it costs too...
I like to think of myself as a pretty durable guy. Nothing frightens me, outside of extreme heights and unexpected snake discoveries. I’m in good health, I don’...
They opened a Starbucks on my route to work. Or, rather, they put up a new building and relocated an existing one. It’s on a busy corner at a major intersection...
Seldom does a day go by that I don’t see an article on Facebook or LinkedIn that declares in some grandiose way the death of brick-and-mortar, or “traditional,”...
