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December 2010 | Vol. IX - No. 12

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How and What to Buy at Trade Shows

Retail Expert Gives You Strategies to Maximize Your ROI

By: Alison Marek
Nov 5, 2010

You've spent a lot of time and money to make it onto the show floor: Now find out how to make that investment profitable. In January's TDmonthly Magazine, Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor, gives you pointers on how to maximize your time at Toy Fair and any other trade show.

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Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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