Do NOT Toss out the Babies

摘要

I count on two things at trade shows: 1) Learning something worth repeating (I call these sticky phrases) and 2) learning about at least one new technique or item. The sticky phrases are usually a result of a stream of consciousness, part of a conversation that eventually wanders off into Craft Philosophy 101. At CHA it was Mike McCooey, President of Plaid Ent., who shared an important thought with me about the industry. "Our stores cannot be like dollar stores," he told me. You can't define our industry standard for retail any better than that or in fewer words, can you?