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SNEWS Youth Team: Buying motivation
Jan 10, 2011
Everybody wants to know what influences and motivates millennials to open their wallets. So we asked our SNEWS Youth Advisory & Reporting Team (YART) and a few Outdoor Nation (ON) Ambassadors for a short story in our SNEWS Winter 2011 magazine to tell us what affects their decisions about products or brands. Here you’ll read expanded answers.
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SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 web extras: Hoka One One embraces the anti-barefoot shoe
Check out this expanded magazine extra from the SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 issue about Hoka One One's take on footwear design.
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SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 web extras: What’s ahead for sleeping pads in 2011
Check out this expanded magazine extra from the SNEWS Outdoor Summer 2010 issue on sleeping pad trends for 2011.
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Sleeping bag manufacturers provide technical and durable features at a reasonable price point.
Jul 6, 2009
In the SNEWS Outdoor 2009 Magazine, our coverage of the hardgoods market included a trends and product report on tents and packs debuting for the spring 2010 season. Below, is the latest on the sleeping bags segment that was not included in the magazine. As with tents and backpacks, weight remains a key selling point for sleeping bags. Keep your eyes peeled for new collections, as well as updates to lines that have sold well for the past few years.
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SNEWS Readers' Choice: Our readers pick their top 25 products of the last quarter-century
Jun 22, 2009
Game-changing, pioneering, inventive -- all are ideal words to describe the innovative products that helped fuel the development and growth of the outdoor industry over the last 25 years. To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we at SNEWS® compiled a list of gear, apparel and footwear from the editors' archives at SNEWS. Then we turned to an industry vote to decide the top 25, presented here as the SNEWS Readers' Choice (the top 10 appear in our printed magazine, and will be revealed online on July 1, 2009 when our digital version of the magazine goes live). For the stories behind these groundbreaking products, we talked to the companies that created the industry's most recognized products still in use today.
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Web Extra -- Performance Compression: Stretching the Limits
Jan 19, 2009
Web Extra: Seven companies are as of January 2009 the primary players in the United States although with the burgeoning exposure and interest -- and the market potential -- others are dabbling at similar garments...
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Web Extras: A-Trainers, all -- What exists currently from a variety of manufacturers
Jul 16, 2007
Now that the A-Trainer category/evolution has been lit up, the leaders are going to struggle to make noise about why its product is better.
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Web Extras: The Science Behind the Chug-Chug of A-Train Equipment
Jul 16, 2007
No published, peer-reviewed studies exist that fully analyze the energy expenditure and biomechanics of any single A-Trainer, nor are there any comparative studies available. The equipment is just too new for those kinds of studies to exist.
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Web Extras: Are you doing enough exercise for your bones?
Jul 15, 2007
There are all kinds of devices these days that can be clipped on waists, legs, wrists and arms, not to mention ones a person stands on or holds, that are designed to tell somebody something about what's going on inside their body.
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Web Extras: Disaster planning – Are you Prepared?
Jul 5, 2006
Are You Prepared? -- A quiz excerpted from the Open For Business Toolkit: 10 questions you should answer …
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iFitness Belts
Oct 17, 2011
The iFitness belts SNEWS recently tested are great for runners who like to carry gadgets, keys and snacks with them.
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Fitnex E55SG Elliptical
Sep 14, 2011
So many ellipticals can be large and pricy, and the though the smaller ones may have a lower price tag, what they give up to get there makes for a more wobbly ride that’s not as much fun. The Fitnex E55SG elliptical manages to be rather petite but still can hold its own when a user pushes it hard.
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November retail, outdoor, online sales rise; NRF raises forecast
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Merchandising Tour: Set up your booth and grab a beer while everyone else is still hard at work
Dec 9, 2011
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The Merchandising Doctor gives Boulder Running Company royal sock treatment
Nov 16, 2011
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How to Sell: Insulation
Nov 9, 2011
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Outdoor Research wants to protect from cold and dry, not just chilly and wet
Nov 18, 2011
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