(Inc.) — It makes no difference what business you are in, suppliers and vendors play a key role in your company’s success. Having a formalized system in place to track and evaluate supplier and vendor performance is essential to the smooth operation and profitability of your company. Successful companies embrace their suppliers and vendors, viewing […]
(Crain’s) — The city’s Independent Budget Office issued its first ever report on street vendors, but highlighted a number of troublesome statistics, including that nearly $15 million in unpaid vendor fines covering 2008 and 2009 remain uncollected. The impetus for the study, according to an IBO spokesman, was to provide facts to a heated debate […]
(Businessweek) — In today’s world your customer is bombarded with marketing messages. The more you tout your product or service, the less likely your audience is to believe you. So how do you cut through the clutter and deliver a message your target audience wants to hear? Be an expert, not a vendor. When you’re […]
(NYT) — In his most trying moments, when the winter winds and the summer storms bore down with unforgiving intensity, the Senegalese street vendor would gaze across the street at Bloomingdale’s and allow himself a fantasy: his own concession inside its gilded doors. “I would wish they could give me a spot inside to put […]
(Washington Business Journal) — D.C. has proposed a set of new regulations governing the city’s food cart business, with the goal of bringing in more street vendors and allowing existing vendors to expand their business. The new set of regulations have been in the works for several years, according to Mike Rupert, a spokesman for […]
(New York Times) — The sign, with the little racks he designed to hold what he used to sell, sat in the foyer in his fourth floor walk-up. David Ferguson strapped it on for the first time in a long time. “I would walk around like some guy wearing a sign saying, ‘The end of […]