Rare Device San Francisco Changes Ownership
Rena Tom and Lisa Congdon, owners of San Francisco art and design gift store Rare Device, announced today that they are selling their business next month. Rare Device, which opened its doors three years ago on Market Street near Guerrero after launching three years earlier in Brooklyn, New York, is known for its unique array of modern gifts, housewares, jewelry and art gallery featuring national …
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Extra, Extra — Sun Sep 12 00:12:56 UTC 2010 Flickr user Barry Yanowitz Remember to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. From the Gothamist News Map: A bank robbery at 188th Street in Queens, a stabbing at Blake Avenue in Brooklyn and two people shot at 140th Avenue in Queens. Sup…
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DoBro trying for an Apple Store…again!
DoBro trying for an Apple Store…again! — Wed Sep 01 01:11:33 UTC 2010 Brooklyn Heights’ neighboring neighborhood, Downtown Brooklyn, is trying its luck at an Apple Store in the neighborhood. For the second time in three years, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership has released a rendering of a retail center in the ground fl… about: Apple Store Brooklyn Heights Downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Municipal Building retail center at: Municipal Building
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New York-based Healthcare Leader Turns to Wyse and VMware View™ to Deliver Secure Patient Care and Meet HIPAA Regulations at Lower TCO
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today at VMworld 2010, Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced how its customer, Interfaith Medical Center, has begun the transition away from PCs in favor of Wyse thin clients.
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You Are the Eyes of the World: Remembering Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995
Deep In The Heart Of Brooklyn — Mon Aug 09 12:30:00 UTC 2010 Remembering Jerome John “Jerry” Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995), an American musician best known for his lead guitar work and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as th…
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6/3/10: Suckers offer up Wild Smile @ Amoeba | Haight
Funcheapsf.com FuncheapsfFree & Cheap Things To Do In The San Francisco Bay Area — Wed May 26 21:02:19 UTC 2010 In two short years, Suckers emerged from their homebase in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a sound and aesthetic that garnered critical acclaim both in NYC and in the online community. Wild Smile, their full-length debut, is due out on Frenchkiss on June 8..
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SFist Tonight, Addendum
Sfist — Sun Apr 25 21:16:25 UTC 2010 Credit: Jessica T./Yelp Excuse us for only finding out about Outside In #4 at the last minute. Dishes by eighteen San Francisco street food and local underground chefs will be paired with eighteen Portuguese wines and beers. DJ Concerned (SF, Brooklyn,…
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4/23/10: The Brooklyn Circus SF Grand Re-opening Party | Fillmore Dist.
Funcheapsf.com FuncheapsfFree & Cheap Things To Do In The San Francisco Bay Area — Wed Apr 21 04:30:03 UTC 2010 The Brooklyn Circus is a mens and womens boutique and lifestyle brand that opened in Brooklyn in 2006 and recently opened a flagship boutique on Fillmore Street in San Francisco. After a flood in the building forced them to close, the grand re-opening …
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Should Brooklyn Have A Major League Baseball Team Again?
In the 1950′s, the Queens and Brooklyn portions of New York City lost their teams, to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Within 5 years of that, Queens replaced the Giants with the Mets. BUT, Brooklyn never did replace the Dodgers.
So, 50 years later, Brooklyn still doesn’t have another Major League Baseball team. Do you think they should have another team? Is it only fair for them to have a team again since Queens got to have another team?
Junior’s Cheesecakes, From Brooklyn to San Francisco Through Cyberspace
When I interviewed Kevin Rosen of Junior’s Cheesecake here in NYC it was to ask him what he and his family want the Internet to do for them and their business.
I met Kevin when he appeared on a panel of business owners taking their companies online, sponsored by Crains Publishing Company at its annual Expo.
In fact I interviewed over 50 successful long established Main Street companies, asking many of the same questions that I asked Kevin. I was looking for the common denominator, the two or three reasons that all mentioned for taking their otherwise successful traditional company online.
And I got them!
Each of them told me that in one way or another in order to increase their market share. Junior’s, located since 1950 in Brooklyn had just opened a Manhattan outlet in Grand Central Terminal. While he was already reaching out into their existing geographical market Kevin had much bigger plans to extend their market reach nationally if not international.
Kevin, President of Junior’s, and grandson of Harry Rosen, is the third generation of the family to be involved in the business. When ex-Brooklynites, some living as far away as California, started calling Kevin and asking him to mail them cheescakes, he knew Junior’s was ready for national exposure.
And they want to use technology to help them grow their bottom line by enhancing the customer Service, increasing productivity, reducing costs, and having at least a part of their business operating 24 hours a day seven days a week. He began by computerizing back office operations, and continues to champion state-of-the-art solutions for the family business, ultimately putting Junior’s in cyberspace.
Kevin believes that the two most important functions of the web site are to generate sales growth and to increase brand awareness. In that spirit, the new site focuses primarily on e-commerce.
Twelve different specialty cheescakes are offered, as well as gift certificates and collectibles. Users have the capability of creating their own personal address book on the site, so repeat orders and gift-giving can be handled in a mouse-click, and orders can be easily tracked from the site.
Placing an order on their web site is as easy and perhaps more convenient than walking into the store or using the 800-number. This ease of entry is crucial to bringing customers back to the site again and again.
With approximately 5000 cheescakes selling every week, it is clear that Junior’s Cheescakes has the recipe for success.
We published their profile just over two years, they were early adopters in their industry. Now there are many people who have jumped on this bandwagon – yet Junior’s maintains its advantage by continuing to evolve its strategy.
In addition to having their story published on our web site, where it receives consistent daily traffic from Internet searchers, they were used as an example of “Best Practices” in the book, “Doing It Right, Realizing Your Company’s Potential” that we published in 2003 and have recently made available on our web site at no charge.
Now, we’re looking for another batch of business owners whose story to tell.
Were going to be asking some of the same questions, two years later, in order to complete our research on the adaptation of the Internet by traditional mainstream businesses. And there will be other questions designed to help us tell the stories of Main Street companies developing strategies for continued success in the 21st Century.
The new profiles will also be posted on our web site and some of them will be selected as part of the content in one of the two books we have in process.
Based on our experience doing these interviews we’ve dramatically streamlined the process for this next round. The process is straightforward and will require very little of the person being interviewed, beyond the time were on the phone together.
There is a page entitled Submit a Profile linked to every pay each of our web site (top right). If you or someone you know is interested in exploring the idea of telling their story, I believe you will find the information you need there.
