Digital Professional Development: Retail

Podcasts on Footwear Retail

Episode #240: Pulling back the curtain on successful shoe eComm – from structure and strategy to data and sales!
Episode #237: Holiday Shoe Shopper Data & Insights Just In Time for the Now 3 Month Holiday Season!
Episode #236: The Power of Packaging
Episode #233: The Real Economics of the Shoe Marketplace From Shoe Sales and Shoppers to The Politics of The Needed Federal Stimulus
Episode #231 Trans Atlantic Shoe Marketplace Update
Episode #225 A Chat with Kerhyl Gantt, Digital Brand Director of Jordan Brand at Nike
Episode #224 Demanding Diversity and Inclusion with Darla DeGrace!
Episode #223 MICAM Americas is on the March
Episode #220 A Look Into The Future of Footwear with Dave Grange
Episode #218 Big ideas to improve online shoe shopping experiences and more profitable delivery models
Episode #214 Shoe Carnival CEO Talks About Stores Reopening from Staff to Storefront to Customer!
Episode #210 Looking at Consumer Behavior Through a Different Lens
Episode #207 Inside the mind of a footwear CEO during the Coronavirus – A chat with David Kahan Chief Executive Officer of Birkenstock Americas
Episode #205 Coronavirus Impact on Italian Footwear Production & Retail
Episode #203 Navigating the Realtime Retail Coronavirus Impact with Foot Locker’s Dick Johnson
Episode #113 Keeping Pace with Pacers Running
Episode #84 Exploring the Great Outdoors with Columbia Sportswear’s Tim Boyle

Kicks Over Coffee: Matt and FDRA’s Chief Economist Gary Raines discuss the latest unemployment numbers (9/4/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee: The Future of Footwear Retail Roundtable Discussion on B&M 2.0, E-commerce Evolution, and New Consumer Behaviors (7/9/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee: Kerhyl Gantt, Digital Brand Director of Jordan Brand at Nike (4/14/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee: Global Coronavirus Insights from Global Hush Puppies President Greg Tunney (3/26/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee Flash Briefing: Real time update on shoe sales numbers and economic stimulus updates (3/25/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee: How Brands use Volumental to Find Customers’ Perfect Fit and Build Valuable Retail Databases (3/24/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee: Rick Muskat Joins Kicks Over Coffee to Conversate Over Coronavirus (3/20/2020) WATCH NOW
Kicks Over Coffee: Andy Gilbert: The State of the Shoe Marketplace Including the Impacts of the Coronavirus (2/26/2020) WATCH NOW

Visit shoeconomy.com, the center for economics of the footwear industry from sales data to shoe jobs
Latest Footwear Retail Recap newsletter HERE
Latest European Footwear Update HERE
How Will You Embrace The Great Coronavirus Retail Reset? READ NOW
National Retail Federation’s Coronavirus Resources for Retailers provides updates from NRF and government agencies with the latest COVID-19 developments HERE
Snowsports Industries America’s COVID-19 industry hub is an online resource for retailers and vendors to become better educated about the evolving coronavirus issue on the industry, and a content source of best practices and learnings to minimize its impact on business
The Board Retailers Association’s COVID-19 Retailer Resource Guide includes information on business strategies, loans and more HERE