Category: Mary Queen Of ShopsBy Jim Symcox on Jun 25, 2009 in business coaching, business decline, Business Growth, Mary Portas, Mary Queen Of Shops | 2 Comments
Mary Portas’s BBC programs on reviving retailers fortunes has been consistently interesting. Sometimes because of the way her clients try and dig their heels in to avoid change. And sometimes because you can’t believe that people are just ignoring what she says when they’d have to pay a fortune to get such advice from anywhere [...]
By Jim Symcox on Nov 18, 2008 in Mary Portas, Mary Queen Of Shops, Seth Godin | 0 Comments
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 shop needed to attract. Seth Godin and a bunch of others have produced a free book of questions and answers all about "Tribes" and based on his latest book:, called [...]
By Jim Symcox 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 [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jun 28, 2007 in Handmade and Found, individualistic shopper tribe, Mary Portas, Mary Queen Of Shops, shopping tribe | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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