Popable Podcast

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Ainfluencer is a smart marketplace, matching brands and the best-suited social media influencers using the power of AI and workflow automation. Their vision is to make influencer marketing available to all by reducing the complexity and cost associated with micro-influencer marketing.

David Benoliel is an entrepreneurial and energetic business leader with 30 years of experience founding, growing, and managing numerous companies, both domestically and internationally. Career-long dedication to software and internet-powered businesses.

Michael is the SVP of Operations at EPM-Eminent Property Management. EPM’s core competencies are conventional property management and ancillary income management.  Our property management services are offered locally throughout the tri-state area with headquarters in Long Island, NY.  Our ancillary income management division operates nationwide. EPM connects property owners with innovative solutions to build property value and maximize income potential.  They work with 5,000+ properties mainly consisting of open-air shopping centers and regional shopping malls nationwide. 

If you are looking to focus or expand in a certain state or region, they can provide opportunities to do so with existing client relationships. EPM’s goal is to create a win-win scenario where we help partners grow while also presenting existing clients with lucrative opportunities to either fill vacancies or implement a new revenue source.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mongiardo-mba-55a300b2/
https://www.eminentpropertymanagement.com/

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Sneh is the cofounder of Lucky, an omnichannel fulfillment platform for any brand and retailer to work together. Prior to starting Lucky, Sneh helped launch an accelerator/fund and led the consumer purchasing behavior team at an agency. He's worked with founders to launch their DTC brands, eCommerce stores, and map out inventory and logistics. Outside of work, Sneh loves pushing the boundaries of fashion, music, and art by either learning or creating.

In this episode, we talk about local order fulfillment at retail partners that’s driven by the eCommerce site of the brand, along with the future of the Metaverse in the shopping and delivery experience.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/snehparmar/
https://luckylabs.io/

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Bil Ingraham is a marketing and business development executive helping brands & small businesses increase customers & sales. At Centennial, he manages a team that books space in their shopping centers throughout the country for local, regional & national brands, positioning them in the heart of their communities via stores, events, sponsorship, media, and pop-ups. Additionally, Bil has opportunities for tech companies & brands looking to be a part of hundred-million-dollar multi-use community redevelopments with retail at their core.

Ron Thurston is a highly accomplished retail leadership Executive, Board Advisor, and Amazon Bestselling Author with extensive experience leading retail operations for America’s most prominent brands. He is adept at turning around underperforming businesses, developing and implementing innovative growth strategies, architecting improved training programs, building high-performing and dedicated teams, launching new brands, expanding brands into new markets, and ensuring customer growth and satisfaction.

In 2021 and 2022, Ron was named one of the top 100 Retail Influencers globally, is a board member of GOODWILL NY/NJ, and currently sits on the advisory boards of several emerging retail technology brands, including Reflex Careers, Job Pixel, and IMMERSS.

In 2022 Ron is launching his audio and video platforms for a year-long tour called “Retail In America,” live from an Airstream trailer to discover the real retail heroes all across the country.

Greg Parsons is a Sr. Manager of Real Estate at Spirit Halloween in the SW region and previously worked with Brookfield Properties, Taubman, and Simon giving him a unique perspective on the popup shop industry going from the landlord side to the brand.  Graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University, he now resides in Texas where he’s been helping retailers and landlords improve profitability for over 20 years.

Nichole Simms is the CEO and founder of Creative Visual Solutions, a Retail and Sales Consultant company that helps Boutique and Small Retail Owners grow their businesses through proven Merchandising and Sales strategies.

She has 30 years of Retail Management, Marketing, Sales, and Visual Merchandising experience. She has a BA of Science in Retail degree from Purdue University. Milwaukee, WI is her hometown and now she resides in Paramount, CA.

Throughout her career she has had the privilege of driving results and collaborating with some of the country's best retailers such as The Gap, Ann Taylor, Forever 21, Nike, UA, and The North Face.

She has been featured in top Retail publications such as Compliant IA, Entrepreneur and Independent Retailer. Now, at Creative Visual Solutions, Nichole helps Boutique owners through all stages of their business. From start up, growth, expansion, and special projects, Nichole uses proven insider secrets and retail techniques used by big brands to help her clients achieve overall success.

Andy Bailen has been a senior executive in retail and CPG businesses for over 30 years. He is currently the Managing Director of 3Pe Consulting, which provides advisory services in business turnarounds, franchise development, general retail & pop-up stores, direct to consumer initiatives, private equity/ M&A, and more. 3Pe Consulting clients have included ASDA, Five Below, Barnes & Noble, The Jim Henson Company, Penguin Books, Propel Equity, Macellum Capital Management, and The Ivy League.

Andy's career includes roles as President & CEO of KB Toys, Head of Specialty Retail at Toys "R" Us, EVP of Merchandising & Marketing at Party City, President of Loew-Cornell (a Jarden Corp. business), EVP at Alex Brands (a private equity rollup) and SVP, GMM at Blockbuster. Highlights include conceptualizing and growing the Toys "R" Us pop-up store program from $0 to $200 million in 18 months and leading a highly successful turnaround at Party City Corp.

Andy has a demonstrated record of success in multi-billion dollar companies as well as start-up businesses. He is a proven leader with significant experience in P&L management, strategic planning, business development, merchandising, buying, e-commerce, product sourcing & development, marketing, licensing, store operations, finance, and real estate.

John Hoyle is a Proptech Founder, Real Estate Professional and experienced MD across international markets. Committed to developing social ventures for profit in the UK and beyond he launched Sook in 2019 with the goal of maximizing the utility of spaces across our towns and cities.

Sook Spaces is the world’s first community retail platform. Establish physical space on a weekly basis and create meaningful connections with your customers at the times that work for you, leaving the rest of the week for other businesses to use. Our hourly rental model and adaptable solution offers you a low cost, low commitment stepping-stone between a pop-up and a full-time commercial lease that is out of reach for so many businesses.

Laura McLaughlin is a Director of Specialty Leasing for Brixmor Property Group.

Laura is responsible for the national specialty leasing efforts focusing pop up, emerging brands & seasonal retailer stores, common area events such as fireworks, the recycling program, Out-Of-Home advertising/experiential marketing and parking lot community events.

Laura earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Marketing from St. Joseph’s University.

Brixmor is a leading owner and operator of high-quality, open-air shopping centers with more than 380 retail centers in the United States.

Darnell King is the Owner of NOLOGO and Co-Owner of LOCAL HEROES flagship retail store in Vernon Hills, Illinois.

Darnell began studying Art at a young age, falling in love with drawing. He has always admired many genres of Art, such as abstract, tattoos, graffiti, and cinematic.

He’s extensively studied color, shade, shape and texture and is well versed in many textiles and garments. DK’s inspiration for designing derives from street and runway fashion. This fashion got him featured in three GQ magazine editions during the summer of 2017.

NOLOGO is the product of needing to change the way we as consumers think and function in fashion. Streetwear is the perfect platform for an individual to break out and start a trend instead of simply being a part of the trend.

Local Heroes is a pop-up collective developed to take advantage of the abundance of vacant retail space currently available in shopping Malls. We take advantage of this abundance, curating local streetwear brands, bringing them to retail in a smaller scale as well as a more streamlined method than normally done with big box retail stores.

Ghalia Boustani is a researcher at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and holds a Doctorate degree from Ecole Supérieure des affaires. Her main research interest is in ephemeral retailing; she has developed her first research on pop-up stores in the Middle East and now is focusing her research on studying pop-up stores in Europe.

Ghalia has published “Ephemeral Retailing: Pop-up stores in a Postmodern consumption era”, “Pop-up retail. The Evolution, Application and Future of Ephemeral Stores” and presented her research in different marketing and retailing colloquy. Throughout her academic journey, Ghalia also worked closely with professionals and entrepreneurs on several projects that added value to her researches and developed a considerable online content that looks at retailing in general and ephemeral retailing in particular.

Dan Jablons worked in retail while attending the Ohio State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Production. He has worked with retailers such as Walmart, Target, JC Penney, American Apparel, Betsey Johnson, Donna Karan, Jimmy Choo, Charles David, Diesel, Oakley, Tumi, Hollywood Bowl, and many others. He has worked for a clothing manufacturer where he piloted vendor-managed inventory programs, a leading point-of-sale provider (where he installed systems and provided merchandising help to retailers large and small) and internet marketing (where he helped retailers establish a presence on the web.)

In addition to his vast retail background, Dan also has a background in improvisational theatre. He recently appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and is often seen in national commercials. Dan combines his extensive knowledge of retail with his comedy skills to become one of the industry's most popular speakers. He has spoken at Magic, Surf Expo, at local municipal and trade show events, and many other venues.

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Scott Blair and Stephen Brooks sit down and talk about the concept behind the Popable Podcast. If you're in retail, entertainment, or the commercial real estate industries, then this podcast is built around strategies to help you grow your pop-up shop business.

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