Going Out Of Business Sale? Try Milton Waldoff!

In the past year “how do I close my retail store”, “best way to close a retail store”, “retail crisis turnaround” and “retail crisis management” have become popular search phrases on the Internet. Business owners in increasing numbers are having going out of business sales.  Not since the 1980s has our country struggled so hard against dire economic forecasts and rising unemployment.  New retail businesses as well established retail stores are both closing their doors at a rate not seen since 1983.  With unemployment topping 10% (USA Today), Americans are spending less on non-essential items and making do with last year’s purchases.  A growing number retail businesses are seeking assistance in closing their stores profitably.  Many will seek the specialized services of a retail crisis manager before they have a going out of business sale.

While small and midsize retail establishments struggling the past eighteen months, now some of the major brands and design giants are seeking retail crisis managers to stay in business or close their doors.  The struggling apparel retailers include GAP, Eddie Bauer, Timberland, Ann Taylor and Pacific Sunwear (Forbes).  Unfortunately for shoppers Eddie Bauer is on the “critical list”, while Timberland, Ann Taylor, GAP and Pacific Sunwear are closing stores in an effort to stay in business. Another casualty Charming Shoppes (owner of Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherines) is set to close another 100 stores.

A  leader in the field of retail crisis solutions (ranked #1 by Google and MSN), The Waldoff Group has been serving the retail community with its expertise for nearly 2 decades.  CEO Milton Waldoff currently based in Hattiesburg, MS has a long family history owning and operating retail business throughout Mississippi.  He brings a unique business perspective to retail crisis situations having experience both highly acclaimed success and, himself,  being a retail casualty of the 1980s economic downturn.

They take a personal approach to each owner’s specific needs. Their clients vary from businesses needing to find a retail turnaround solution to those needing to close their retail stores. Their Group believes “Good management means knowing when to call for help”.  As a retail consultant He contributes his expertise and years of experience as a very successful merchant and businessman, in assisting store management in recognizing problems and the successful implementation of solutions.  Turnaround and crisis management has become a specialty of The Waldoff Group. Through his personal experience, guidance and leadership he continues to assist troubled companies in returning to profitability.  Of course there are many other retail crisis turnaround managers other than Mr. Waldoff. We chose him as an example since he is ranked number one by the two major search engines and the testimonials on his site certainly reflect why with a plethora of happy clients.

Business owners should be aware there is a wave of newly minted retail crisis managers promoting themselves online.  According to the management library “Crisis management is a relatively new field of management. Typically, proactive crisis management activities include forecasting potential crises and planning how to deal with them.”  Finding a retail crisis manager with experience and a track record of results will become more difficult as the recession deepens.  Store owners will need to carefully check the experience and testimonials of perspective retail crisis managers.  Acting before the crisis worsens, more often than not, will mean the difference between liquidation and closing ones store profitably.

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Rick London is a writer, cartoonist and entrepreneur. He founded Londons Times Cartoons in 1997 which have been Google and MSN’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoons since 2005. He also founded the world’s only famous love quotation shoes at ShoesThatAmuse.com featured in USA Today. He has several licensed cartoon stores which feature his odd cartoons on tees, mugs, and more

$500 Gift Certificate Contest For “Most Friendly Twitter” From Cartoonist Rick London

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TOP GOOGLE OFFBEAT CARTOONIST AND  E-GIFT SHOP OWNER OF LONDONS TIMES CARTOONS & GIFTS  OFFERING $500 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO LUCKY TWITTER WHO CAN PUT HIM AT THE VERY TOP (OF TWITTER)  (If he doesn’t go to “The Twitter Top” he’s still giving a $250 gift certificate to the one who retweets him most)

Dateline: Hot Springs,Ar. March 11, 2009:   Cartoonist E-entreneur Rick London announced today his firm, Rick London Group, LLC., is offering a $500 gift certificate to his award-wining top-ranked offbeat cartoon funny gift stores, if Twitters will put him at the top of Twitter. Making it “to the top” simply means having the most followers. (His user name is “ricklondon”) on Twitter.

London is the founder of Google’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoon, Londons Times.

London’s six award-winning Internet stores feature over 165,000 gift items such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, gourmet coffee gift baskets (his own line of farm-fresh coffee beans with cartoon mugs and coasters, teddy bears, maternity wear, magnets, buttons, jogging suits, caps, aprons, hoodies, shoes, wall and desk clocks, and much more more.

London is also the designer of (Shoes That Amuse) women’s casual sneakers with famous love quotations and graphics of the famous person who penned them, featured recently in USA Today and AP Wire which will also be included in the contest. London adds, “But not to worry, even if I don’t make it to the top, (Obama is there now), so we are also giving a $100 certificate for the most ‘retweets’.

So I really don’t have to be at the top for other Twitters to win. Simply following me and retweeting, and one can still win a $250 gift certificate, easily, without even a drawing. Second most retweets #50 gift certificate.

We simply count the retweets of each Twitter member at the end of the contest. A re-tweet is when another blogger at Twitter copies and pastes your tweet with an “RT” in front of it which stands for “retweet”,  giving the original blogger credit for the post, and, sharing it with , often a whole separate network of followers.

London will allow 120 days for the contest to end, and a name to be drawn at random on his birthday which is July 16th, when the winner will be announced, and paid on August 1 via Paypal or check (winners choice). London plans to print his page of followers, cut the names into squares, place them in a box, and draw one.

London adds, “In addition, we plan to issue a press release, if the winner wishes, including his/her name and web address to the wire services for yet more value to the prizes. Londons says, “There also will be a second prize winner, of a $250 gift certificate. In addition, a $50 second prize for the second most “retweets”.

The gift certificates will be good at all of London’s stores. He founded Londons Times on March 22, 1997, and it has grown to be one of the most visible sites on the Internet, and Google’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoon and gifts since 2005.

He will also add an extra $25 bonus gift certificate if the winner has visited his main superstore site and signs up for his monthly newsletter. His stores include Rick London Special Editions Top-selling funny gifts Rick

LondonWear rare line of funny rock star memorabilia and other novelty gifts

Rick London Collection Huge variety of best-selling funny gift ideas

Londons Times Superstore Londons largest funny gift store and exclusively sells world’s only gourmet coffee cartoon gift basket (Londons Own Line).

Rick London Organics (organic cotton tees) bearing his top-selling cartoon images. Shoes That Amuse (World’s Only Famous Love Quotation Shoes) These are not cartoon products but women’s casual shoes he designs. For more information: contact: info@londonstimes.us

A Londons Times Cartoon

A Londons Times Cartoon

New Cartoon Maternity Wear Predicts Baby’s Profession

Cartoonist e-tailer Rick London, founder of Londons Times Cartoons has done it again. This time with a new Internet store www.mirthgirthbirth.com which he says not only brings laughter but predicts the baby’s professional future (of course a little bit with the parent’s help). The store sells high quality full length maternity tees, toddler/infant wear and teddy bear gifts, all bearing a profession-related Londons Times Cartoons in such categories as future lawyer, future psychiatrist, future scientist, future, veterinarian, and others, each with a hilarious cartoon depicting that profession. London’s award-winning designs have lured over 9 million visitors to his main cartoon website since 2005 and he launched the venture in 1997. This makes Londons Times Cartoons one of the most visited humor sites on the Internet.

London says, “I have to admit it. I’m a baby-boomer. My peers are all having kids or even grandkids, and they are more prone to laughter than the generation before us. Why not combine the two, maternity and laughter, and make it something fun rather than a ‘labor’ (no pun intended).”

Relentless Cartoonist/Etailer Rick London Adds Funny Lawyer Gifts

It is said that persistence is more important than genius. Cartoonist e-tailer Rick London, founder of Londons Times Cartoons and more recently The Rick London Collection www.ricklondoncollection.com, says that describes him perfectly. He says he is persistent, no even “relentless” in his pursuit to build the best web stores on the Internet. He asks his customers and potential customers what they want. London says for some odd reasons he has a lot of attorneys as customers and they want funny lawyer gifts and collectibles but not our lawyer tee shirts, mousepads, aprons and the like. They like our beer steins, framed tiles, even teddy bears and unique gifts and collectibles. London has added about 300 new lawyer products bearing two of his best-selling lawyer cartoon image products.

London says, “In fact, the whole idea of opening The Rick London Collection was to feature our best selling products from all our other stores.”

The store has started its after-Christmas sale with all items in the store market down up to 75%. The sale lasts until Jan 10, 2008 at 12 midnight EST.”

London adds, “When dealing with attorneys, of which I grew up with many, I am very good about precision, and dates and times are included. Tort for tat!”

Cartoonist E-tailer Rick London Launches Rick London Collection With Up To 75% Off Prices

Cartoonist E-tailer Rick London announced today the opening or The Rick London Collection at www.ricklondoncollection.com which features “the best sellers” of his over 8500 cartoon image products. London says though the store is new, it is already pulling in plenty of happy customers, he believes, not just due to the funny quality products, but he purposely launched its grand opening the day after Christmas and started all prices at up to 75% off what they will be regularly price starting June 11, 2008 (below wholesale in many cases). The Rick London Collection sells novelty t-shirts, sweatshirts, day planners, tote bags, aprons, mugs, magnets, buttons, Christmas ornaments and hundreds of other gifts and collectibles in such categories as lawyers, doctors, dogs, cats, frogs, police law and order, and more. He says he is adding categories and new products daily. This is London’s 7th new store in the past year and he still owns the most popular offbeat cartoon site, Londons Times Cartoons www.londonstimes.us which lures 4.5 million visitors per year. He founded The London Group in March of 1997 in an abandoned steel warehouse in rural Misissippi. In one decade it has grown into a cartoon empire with over 100,000 products and 8500 original Rick London images.

Bar School Exam Speciality Offbeat Gifts Remain Top Sellers

Award-winning  cartoonist e-tailer Rick London (www.ricklondonwear.com)  says “Not surprisingly, ‘Salad Bar Exam” remains at the top of his 8500+ cartoons and merchandise and gifts such as t-shirts, mousepads, aprons, tote bags, sweats, and more are ’selling like hotcakes’. “

London says, “It appears most of the items are being sold to giftgivers, and the recipients are either those in law school, taking the bar, or just finished it, though we’ve had a lot of attorneys purchase them as well. In addition, a great many people who are not attorneys but just enjoy salads and veggies seem to buy the items in droves”.

For a direct link to Salad Bar Exam cartoon merchandise:

http://www.printfection.com/londonstimestees/Salad-Bar-Exam/_s_86264