Archive for January, 2011
23 Custom
Customers love it, and the customization sites are reporting sizzling sales growth. Zazzle, CafePress and Scrapblog, a site that lets people create medical evacuation insurance and print digital scrapbooks, have each reported 80 percent increases in sales this holiday season compared with last year. Orders at Spreadshirt, where people can customize shirts, bags, umbrellas and even underwear, have doubled. At Blurb, where people create their own photo or art books, sales are up 43 percent.
Duly Noted
Then we went to the Canyons, the neglected cousin of two nearby skier favorites, Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resort. The bounty of glades was impressive, but as soon as we got hungry, visitors insurance USA the mountain’s faults really became apparent. The fact that it was next to impossible to find a place to grab a bite on the mountain meant returning to base, which was the last place we wanted to be. The main lift out was 45 years old, a slow relic with crowds of impatient skiers fanned out around it.