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This is not an attack on Stuart Weitzman
If this post comes off as a rant against a brand I will have missed the mark. I am using a recent experience with Stuart Weitzman to highlight a bigger point. Last week I had a pair of the brand’s...
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A huge sea change in consumer products: six points of evidence
Matt-Cavotta-LivingTsunami-fromMagic Although I trained as a designer, my work is always based on cultural anthropology. Any disruptive business model innovation has to be based on enduring, seismic...
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Oddball photo tour of Montreal
I’m driving back from Montreal as I write this. Well technically I am NOT driving–my husband is. This gives me a chance to share some eye candy from the trip, organized in these themes: Captivating...
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Random photo tour of Detroit
I’m on a plane back from Detroit, posting another random photo tour. The themes of this one are: Phoenix rising from the ashes: Detroit’s indie entrepreneurs, and VC funded ones too Classic Detroit...
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Four insider tips for businesses trying to figure out Pinterest
Inc. magazine recently recognized Daily Grommet for our effective business use of Pinterest. (Here’s the article.) It’s kind of ironic because in the last three weeks some investors have been asking...
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Cranky Comments: four lessons on how to deal with them
With each Grommet launch, we open up a community discussion board with the Grommet’s creator. We recently had a very nasty comment that stopped me in my tracks. It was posted by the self-described “An...
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The Motley Fool Take on 3-D Printing
The just-released Mojo professional grade 3-D printer by Stratsys. It’s available for $9,999, or by lease for $189/mo. Ever since I saw a 3-D printer available for a $15/hour at a college design lab,...
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Paying Full Price is for Saps
“I never pay retail.” “You wouldn’t believe what a deal I got on this.” “I’ll wait until it goes on sale.” If you are talking about last season’s clothes, or giant boxes of Cheerios, or a car, or a...
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Only the Mafia is more secretive than this industry
Unreal Brands products There’s been a bit of press buzz about a new candy line, created by a 15-year-old. It’s called Unreal Brands. The news stories focus on the deep wealth and connections of the...
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Watching Kickstarter: two years–and a lifetime–later
Me, speaking at MakerFaire Picture this. It’s Fall of 2010 and Joanne and I are invited to attend the highly interesting and wacky MakerFaire New York. (Blog post about it here.) We hoped to connect...
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Hat Trick of Happy Comments
I keep a file of “Messages that made me happy.” It got three new additions last week, that I am sharing below. From Facebook: Via email from a new customer, upon discovering us and sharing The...
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A spot of help please?
I don’t like to ask my networks very often for social media pushes, but I am bending that rule today as we’ve applied to the SXSW festival and need the public to help us make it past the judges and...
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A generation of Henry (and Henrietta) Fords is being shaped in front of our eyes
Today’s kids are being powerfully shaped into realizing they can be inventors and Makers. I’m seeing examples of this as prevalent as Dunkin’ Donuts shops in Boston. It’s so exciting to put the tools...
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Seeing that Tipping Point of Joy Get Closer and Closer
When you start a business you are constantly looking for evidence that you are not crazy, and that you are working on something that matters. In quiet moments of fear or self-doubt at The Grommet,...
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Thanking our “insiders”
Joanne and I sent a special email out to 17,000 of our top customers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday. I am loving the responses people are sending us via email. I figure you, the people who read...
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Grommet + Whole Foods = Whole Lotta Good
In my normal weekend food shop I alternate between feisty local favorite Market Basket and Whole Foods. This week it was Whole Foods. In the space of half an aisle, I saw eight different Grommets so I...
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Crushing on “Buy Me Once”
The new pot on the block French cookware company Le Creuset recently honored its lifetime guarantee when it replaced my beloved–but chipped–Dutch oven. It’s a piece of cookware I use weekly, and...
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Counterfeits: the underbelly of Amazon and eBay
Credit: Shane Robinson Grommet’s daily launches currently reach 1 in 25 US households. With that great influence comes serious responsibility. Some call us a “trust agent” for the Maker Movement—making...
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What liberal elites (like me) can do for the middle of the US
In 1985, in a large Harvard Business School amphitheater classroom, about 75 of us were discussing the shrinking of US manufacturing and the explosive growth of the service economy. I somehow became...
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Happy birthday to us!
The last month of Grommet life has felt like a year–in a good way–so it’s appropriate that we are marking the milestone of our ninth birthday on Friday October 20. Here are the three Grommet things I...
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