January, 2013 | The Wiglaf Journal

Top 6 – January 2013

By Tim J. Smith, PhD | January 7, 2013

“We’re looking to make progress quickly, either fail fast or succeed fast.” Daniel Hullah, Venture Capitalist Most businesses fail, but some succeed brilliantly. Identify which category your business fits quickly and then make a decision. The most limited resource available to anyone isn’t power or money. It is time. Use yours wisely. Nothing is as…

The Collapse of the Big Box: Best Buy

By James T. Berger | January 7, 2013 |

Every Christmas my son comes home and does his Christmas shopping at the Best Buy store about 5 miles from our house. This year he discovered his favorite Best Buy (BBY) store was closed and out of business.

What Are Firmographics?

By Tim J. Smith, PhD | January 7, 2013 |

Firmographics are descriptive attributes of firms that can be used to aggregate individual firms into meaningful market segments. In an analogy, firmographics are to businesses and organizations what demographics are to people. Firmographics describe businesses, non-profits, and governmental entities.