Mark Quinn

What does it take for today's independent retailers to survive and thrive? Retail is experiencing a massive transition. Thousands of independent retailers have been bobbing in the ocean, clinging to planks of splintered wood and struggling to stay afloat. Today, those who remain have washed ashore on a new island, and the rules have changed. But where there's life, there's hope, as long as you're willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work. In Come Back to Bed, Mark Kinsley and Mark Quinn offer strategies and principles retailers can use to forge lasting customer relationships that will weather any storm. Bring in new business and reclaim your path to success (and profits ) as you learn how to build your brand, connect with customers in a more meaningful way, drive foot traffic, and become notorious in your marketplace.

Solidarity strikes are breaking out all over Communist Poland and Soviet forces seem set for a crackdown. A small group of student activists have taken over the vice-rector's office in a Warsaw university. One is Tom, a visiting student from Belfast, whose love for a girl from Gdansk is bad for them all. Another is Alex, the journalist whose family of agitators have secrets of their own. Then there is Michalski, their enigmatic leader. Over a decade later, on the brink of a new millennium and with Putin poised to take control in the Kremlin, the friends are reunited as Michalski seeks to become his country's president. How will the decisions he took during the strike - and while awaiting exile in the Europejski hotel - affect his chances now? And Tom - with a letter and a train ticket for Gdansk in his pocket - has his own decision to make.

Solidarity strikes are breaking out all over Communist Poland and Soviet forces seem set for a crackdown. A small group of student activists have taken over the vice-rector's office in a Warsaw university. One is Tom, a visiting student from Belfast, whose love for a girl from Gdansk is bad for them all. Another is Alex, the journalist whose family of agitators have secrets of their own. Then there is Michalski, their enigmatic leader. Over a decade later, on the brink of a new millennium and with Putin poised to take control in the Kremlin, the friends are reunited as Michalski seeks to become his country's president. How will the decisions he took during the strike - and while awaiting exile in the Europejski hotel - affect his chances now? And Tom - with a letter and a train ticket for Gdansk in his pocket - has his own decision to make.

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