Tag: George Prout
Applied Marketing 101: The View from Vicenza Fall
As I write this, I’m on an American 777 returning home from Venice, after a fascinating trip to the September ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: The staggering implications of AI, for the jewelry industry as well as human civilization
The Chinese boardgame Go was invented over 2500 years ago, and has been played by over a billion people. Generally ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: Reciprocal Tariffs Arrive with a Bang!
As I write this, it’s 11 PM East Coast time, seven hours after President Trump launched what may be one ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: Gamechanger
As I write this, I’m located in seat 1A on an American flight from Las Vegas to Dallas, the first ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: The Approaching Hinge in Geopolitical History (part 1)
From a Business Modeling perspective, your company lies at the apex of a fragile ecosystem, owing to the fact that ...
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Ep 64 – Bitcoin & Lab-Grown Diamonds’ Impact on the Jewelry Industry
Welcome to Pearls of Wisdom Podcast! Today, we have a special guest joining us: George Prout, the president of JB ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: Are the Macroeconomic Chickens Now Coming Home to Roost?
I’ve been thinking about money a lot lately, not as in “How much do I have” or “How much more ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: Standing Outside the Gates of Macroeconomic Hell
As a Political Science major at Brown in the 70’s, I spent lots of time analyzing and writing about the ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: Harnessing the power of the Halo Effect
The year is 1976, and Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyo Kogyo is contemplating bankruptcy. Known as Mazda in the US, the ...
Read moreDetailsApplied Marketing 101: How concerns of provenance may now diminish the value of used diamonds
As everyone now recognizes, advances in consumer acceptance of lab grown diamonds (LGD) are having a significant negative impact on ...
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