Why You Think Advanced Retail Education Isn't Important.

Advanced retail Education.

A good college education prepares us to figure things out in the "real world." It prepares us to work on deadlines, deal with budgets and prepare and present reports. For a career in retail it's vital that a person have a 360 degree view of the world.

A retailer has to understand how important psychology, presentation and design are to the science of selling. A classics major will learn some philosophy as well as literature but for retail it will help if they have a grasp of art and math as well.

But in my almost 40 years of retail experience I've had to know drafting (now on computers), algebra, geometry, basic math skills, basic accounting, painting, graphic design, basic human psychology... as well as developing some construction skills for my visual merchandising work. Plannogramming is huge now and that requires organizational thinking skills.

I don't believe a dedicated course in retail is absolutely necessary for success. It doesn't hurt - it's just not a vital component. But a college degree is!

Advice

    * Any retail program worth it's time should have a work/learn program.
    * The best learning is on-the-job - especially when you have a teacher/professor/mentor to discuss it with back at school. It's an excellent learning combination.
    * Generally people "end up" in retail and the motivated, intelligent ones rise to the top and learn on the way.

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YouTube close to announcing agreements to broadcast original programming.

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AFP - The online video site YouTube (Google Group) could announce next week agreements with various media and celebrities on the production of original programs broadcast it on "strings" theme, according to the Wall Street Journal. The daily quoted Wednesday among the partners expected the company Electus, a subsidiary of IAC internet, ShineReveille, owned by News Corporation of Rupert Murdoch and Fremantle (RTL) and the "skate legend" Tony Hawk and the creator of the series "CSI" ("CSI") Anthony Zuiker and others that broadcast their programs already on the site.

Google, which has not commented on this information, would build more than $ 100 million to turn YouTube into a new supplier of a variety of "channels" free broadcast-quality programs, financed by advertising. These channels are divided into twenty thematic categories, the kitchen, comedy or information, for example, and offer programs specifically tailored to the Web, rather than copied the model of television.

This comprehensive offering diversity of supply of YouTube, originally an exchange site amateur videos purchased by Google in 2006 to $ 1.65 billion, became owner of the spring-demand video. This activity is already the result of a collaboration between YouTube and many of the major Hollywood studios like Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. (Time Warner), Universal (GE and Comcast), Lionsgate and several independent studios.

Chris Tucker To Lose $6 Million Home

Rush Hour star Chris Tucker's $6 million Florida mansion is in foreclosure, with more than $4.4 million owed to the bank, reports the Orlando Sentinel, citing papers filed in Circuit Court in Lake County.

Tucker, 39, bought the 10,000-sq.-ft. waterfront home on Lake Apopka, near Orlando, in 2007. The newspaper says the residence contains five bedrooms, three fireplaces, a personal spa, an outdoor kitchen overlooking a pool, and a basement outfitted to resemble a pirate ship, including the sail.

Court documents reportedly show an $11.5 million IRS lien on the home in 2011 in order to collect federal income taxes from Tucker, whose monthly mortgage payment, the documents also show, was $25,812.50.

There has been no comment from Tucker, but the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., reports that his comedy show scheduled in the city for this Sunday – and was a rescheduling of a postponed Sept. 3 performance – has been canceled because of "unforeseen circumstances." 

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