By jimsym on Nov 18, 2008 in Mary Portas, Mary Queen Of Shops, Seth Godin | 0 Comments
Hi, Enjoy the post. If you find this blog useful, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss out on the nuggets. Thanks for visiting!Mary Portas did an excellent BBC TV programme, called "Mary, Queen of Shops". She used "tribes" in her series to describe the people a particular [...]
By jimsym on Sep 24, 2007 in Dragon’s Den, Duncan Bannatyne, Gordon Ramsey, Mary Portas, Mary Queen Of Shops, Mind Your Own Business, Reality TV Shows, Sir Alan Sugar, Sir Gerry Robinson, Sir John Harvey-Jones, The Apprentice, The Armstrongs, The Restaurant, The Troubleshooter, Tycoon | 0 Comments
Business reality shows are big business. Previously I blogged about the fantastic BBC series “The Troubleshooter” with Sir John Harvey-Jones. More recently we’ve had Sir Alan Sugar’s “The Apprentice.”
Around the same time we got a dose of Brummy with a double glazing firm run with an iron fist in an iron glove by the Armstrongs. [...]
By jimsym on Jun 28, 2007 in Handmade and Found, Mary Portas, Mary Queen Of Shops, individualistic shopper tribe, shopping tribe | 0 Comments
In a strange way this short series with Mary, Queen of Shops doing a nice Gordon Ramsay to fashion boutiques has been fun and contrary to what I expected not always the same.
As I’ve noted before it seems it’s invariably the case that the shop owners start off well then get into a rut and their [...]