What I Learned at ASR: Products, Movies, Cooperation, Culture and Hype
I spent three days walking and talking. I suffered through the usual distraction and traffic jam at the Reef booth (why is it that no matter which way you try and go, you end up there?). In no...
View ArticleThoughts From the Action Shoe Retailer Show; Opps- Did I Get That Wrong?
This article sort of took shape the Monday the show ended. In the first place, I was flying back to Seattle on an Alaska Airlines MD80, which didn’t exactly put me in a positive frame of mind. Second,...
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I walked out of ASR feeling positive about skateboarding and its market and will discuss why below. Still, when things look too good to be true, it’s been my experience that they usually are and I’m as...
View ArticleAnother ASR. Anything to Learn
Lousy time for a deadline. What am I going to say about ASR that seems relevant when what’s left of the World Trade Center towers is still burning? The most talked about issue at ASR seemed to be...
View ArticleHype, Technology And Trade Shows; Not Enough of Some, too Much of the Other.
Slowing growth, or a decline in year over year sales if that’s what your company is experiencing, was inevitable in skateboarding. Sure, we would rather it didn’t happen. But since we all knew it was...
View ArticleASR and Crossroads Make a Deal; What a Surprise!
This is good news because it makes things easier for the retailers, which I may have said a time or two is what trade shows need to be about. Crossroads needed retailers, which ASR can help supply, and...
View ArticleRequiem for the ASR Show. Now What?
At the moment you hear about it, it’s kind of a surprise. But when the initial shock passes, it’s not. I thought The Editors over at Boardistan put it best. Back in 2009, referring to ASR, they said;...
View ArticleReality Bites; The View from ASR
There was a keg at the IASC hospitality suite at ASR the first evening of the show, and I was drinking a beer with Miki Vuckovich of Transworld Skate and Jim Fitzpatrick of IASC. Into this fairly...
View ArticleI Feel a Whole Lot More Like I Do Now Than I Did a Little While Ago; My Take...
I’m not entirely sure what the title of this article means, but I’m pretty certain it applies to the skateboard industry. Conditioned as I am by the snowboard industry consolidation, I went to ASR...
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