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Article Thumbnail 2011 Annual SNEWS Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: What is biggest waste of time?
Apr 27, 2011
In asking our free-thinking question about time wasters in the outdoor industry of survey respondents, many took the time to write thoughtful, sometimes sarcastic, and frequently funny responses. In most cases, the responses were quite eye-opening. Grab a notepad and get ready to read and, we hope, learn what things need to be addressed to help retailers stop wasting so much time.
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Article Thumbnail 2011 Annual SNEWS Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: Top-selling outerwear, sportswear and footwear brands
Apr 18, 2011
This week, in part three of our series of reports from the annual SNEWS® Outdoor Retail Survey, we're focusing on best-selling outerwear, sportswear and footwear brands for outdoor specialty retailers. Some eye-opening results, but as always, you must be an All-Access subscriber to read.
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Article Thumbnail 2011 Annual SNEWS Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: Top-selling brands for camping, backpacking
Apr 6, 2011
This week, in part two of our series of reports from the annual SNEWS® Outdoor Retail Survey, we're focusing on best-selling outdoor hardgoods, as well as underwear and sock brands, in the camping and backpacking categories. Some eye-opening results, but as always, you must be an All-Access subscriber to read.
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Article Thumbnail 2011 Annual SNEWS® Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: The best and worst
Mar 16, 2011
The 2011 SNEWS® Outdoor Retailer Survey is out -- the one place where outdoor specialty retailers get to speak their minds and offer industry observations and commentary on what is great, good, not so good and desperately needs improvement in the industry. Beginning with the much-anticipated "best" and "most difficult" categories, SNEWS will begin present full survey results in sections over the next couple of weeks. You’ll need to be an All Access SNEWS subscriber to read the full survey and analysis.
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Article Thumbnail Time is running out to be heard in the SNEWS 2010 Outdoor Retailer Survey!
Feb 11, 2011
The clock is ticking and time is running out for retailers to participate in the annual SNEWS® Outdoor Retailer Survey! We have received a phenomenal response so far...be sure your voice is heard too. Who do you think should appear in the top 10 of the best companies to do business with for 2010? Who were some of the most difficult to do business with?
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS 2010 Outdoor Retailer Survey now open for your responses -- who will be best or worst?
Jan 5, 2011
It's time for the annual SNEWS® Outdoor Retailer Survey! Who will appear in the top 10 of the best companies to do business with for 2010? We hope -- as we know the rest of the industry hopes -- you'll take part to make this year's results even more compelling, eye-opening and informative than before.
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Article Thumbnail 2009 SNEWS Outdoor Retailer Survey results: Revealing how retailers view, use social media
Mar 31, 2010
As we announced in Part 1, we are now releasing the full results from the SNEWS Outdoor Retailer Survey, complete with expanded and detailed analysis available to our All Access SNEWS subscribers. This week, in Part 5, a large number of retailers revealed they’re beginning to find value in social media sites, but there are still those who are on the fence or completely opposed to using Facebook and Twitter.
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Article Thumbnail 2009 Annual SNEWS Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: Looking at trade show attendance
Mar 19, 2010
As we announced in Part 1, we are now releasing the full SNEWS Outdoor Retailer survey results, complete with expanded and detailed analysis available to our All Access SNEWS subscribers. In Part 4, this week, we share some very eye-opening results to our trade show attendance questions.
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Article Thumbnail 2009 Annual SNEWS Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: Top-selling outerwear, sportswear and footwear brands
Mar 3, 2010
As we announced in Part 1, the full survey results, complete with expanded and detailed analysis of each category’s results, will be presented in sections to our All Access SNEWS subscribers over the next few weeks, with this third week focusing on best-selling outdoor outerwear, sportswear and footwear brands.
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Article Thumbnail 2009 Annual SNEWS Specialty Outdoor Retail Survey: Top selling brands for camping and backpacking
Feb 22, 2010
As we announced last week in Part 1, the full survey results, complete with expanded and detailed analysis of each category’s results, will be presented in sections to our All Access SNEWS subscribers over the next few weeks, with this week focusing on best-selling outdoor hardgoods, as well as underwear and sock brands, in the camping and backpacking categories.
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