Sharper Image Corporation


Keeping Costs Under Control

Although The Sharper Image's 48- to 56-page catalog has a high-quality look and feel, a six-person in-house creative staff produces and mails it for 44? a...  Read story

Losing An Edge

Sharper Image’s founder reflects on the chain’s demise and the challenges retailers face in today’s economy.  Read story

Sharper Image Founder Steps Down

The four-time Inc. 500 company, which is now public, has struggled with same-store sales.  Read story

Hitting The Jackpot With Direct Mail

Richard Thalheimer has reason to trust his instincts for picking mail-order products that sell. In 1975, when he was 26 years old and a door-to-door sale...  Read story

Auditing The Accounting Article

I question the extraordinary emphasis given to a remark attributed to Richard Thalheimer, president of the Sharper Image. " 'I walked into Price Waterhous...  Read story

Unclear Future for Sharper Image

The former Inc. 500 gadget retailer has filed for bankruptcy and will close half its U.S. stores, officials say.  Read story

25 Years. 7,900 Companies. One Enormous Impact

For 25 years, the most exciting companies in America have been getting noticed here. Microsoft, Timberland, Jenny Craig--glad to be of service.  Read story

The Ultimate Business Tune-up for Times Like These

In a tough economy with credit extremely tight, big investments are not an option for most companies. Yet no business can afford to stand still. We asked our...  Read story

Richard Thalheimer on Selling Through Infomercials

Infomercials 101 from the man who brought you massage chairs and white-noise machines.  Read story

Inc. 500 Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Each year since 1981, Inc. magazine has named the fastest-growing small privately held companies in America. When companies first make the In...  Read story

Your Product Here

Start-up brings five experienced catalog veterans together to create the Good Catalog Co.  Read story

Catalog Marketing, Cont.

If you like O. Henry, you'll love I. Magnin; if you've just finished The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, you'll probably go for The Sharper Image. Th...  Read story

Start-up Strategies: Early to Web

Dot-coms, schmot-coms. When you're launching any kind of company with limited resources, the Internet can be your best friend.  Read story

Web Start-Up Strategies

Dany Levy leveraged her ties to the journalism community when she launched her website, DailyCandy<...  Read story

Gifts for the 'Ultimate Salesperson'

Suggestions from CEOs and sales managers on rewards and gifts for salespeople.  Read story

Inc. 500 All-Stars

A look at the companies that have achieved the distinction of appearing on the Inc. 500 a staggering 5 times. Plus: Household-name companies that earned thei...  Read story

The Inc. 500 Index (company And Rank)

A. J. Reynolds (228) ACE Equipment Rentals (320) ACSIS (249) Action Packets (92) Ad-Tek Engineering Services (362) Administr...  Read story

7 Smart Ways to Trim Your Company’s Budget

Smart advice on how to squeeze a lot out of a tight budget.  Read story

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SMALL COMPANY INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: APRIL 1987 Offering First Size after- O-T-C ...  Read story

Fighting the War on Postage

Catalog houses suggest alternative marketing tactics to offset the high cost of mailing.  Read story

Sonic Boom

A profile of Optiva, the number one Inc. 500 company, and the unlikely product -- an electric toothbrush -- that brought it to the top of the 1997 list.  Read story

Inc. Magazine Archives

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The Inc. 500 Index (company And Rank)

A. J. Reynolds (228) ACE Equipment Rentals (320) ACSIS (249) Action Packets (92) Ad-Tek Engineering Services (362) Administr...  Read story

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Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1979-83 Com...  Read story

A Guide to Profitable Direct Marketing

Author Lois Geller explains how direct marketing can be tested, tracked, and most important, profitable.  Read story

What About the Children?

This month it's mostly about values.  Read story

Form an Inventors Group

An inventors group offers the opportunity to build and improve business skills and to brainstorm and network with other inventors.  Read story

On the Road: Sleeping Easier

For many, business travel means tossing and turning all night and bloodshot eyes the morning after. Sleep experts and some smart hotels are trying to change ...  Read story

FYI: The Million-Dollar Post-it Note

Confessions of a compulsive bootstrapper.  Read story

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Behind the headlines -- the news of last month's gross national products, the endless debates about industrial policy and protective tariffs, the stories ...  Read story

A Sharper Image

This knife vendor started as an on-line demo. Then it was a dot-com. Now it's a store. And catalogs are on the way.  Read story

The Absolutist

If you want to work with Laura Ricci, you have to do things her way. That means on-line.  Read story

Rock Star

Thanks to the Web, Richard Rhodes leaves no stone unturned in his quest for the world's most fabulous materials.  Read story

How to Survive Without a Job

Guide to creating your own workplace in the '90s. Focus on entrepreneurs the changing small business landscape.  Read story

The Dirtbag Demographic

Using E-mail and a Web site, Douglas Canning reached out and touched practically everyone who could help his start-up.  Read story

Hole In One

Imagine owning a company with one high-margin product that you sell to a huge market of affluent hobbyists, charging twice as much as your competitors. Im...  Read story

The Company Store

A manufacturer maintains its only retail store for the sole purpose of conducting market research.  Read story

America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

A user's guide to the 12th annual Inc. 500 list.  Read story

Case Study #1: The Reluctant Entrepreneur

The Start-up: Nanda Home The Founder: Gauri Nanda Rochester Hills, Michigan The business proposition:Read story

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