I was a skinny eleven-year-old, a buck fifty-five dripping wet. I had just hit a growth spurt and my motor skills were rapidly developing. I was doing what your typical suburban white kid did at the time, playing tennis — white suburban people in the early 1990s also partook in hobbies such as, but not […]
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How Fundamentals Made Me Better and Stronger
Problems CRE Owners will Face in 2020 & Expert Solutions
Dave’s Prediction/Problem Retailers will close locations, ask for rent reductions and aggressively negotiate renewals. It will become a more tenant-friendly commercial real estate market. Mike’s Solution Tactical Knowledge Your Competition: A good leasing/development advisor knows about competing centers, their site characteristics vs. yours, rents, NNNs and most importantly, which concepts are doing well. Your Property […]
The Anatomy of a Monster Deal
David Cobb: In the fall of 2012, I connected with the best relationship of my career, and I’ve been riding that Clydesdale ever since. I’d recently been recruited to establish a retail department at a boutique firm in the Orlando area. I’d met Morpheus a few times, but those initial interactions were cordial, casual and […]
Truist Merger: Important Facts You Should Absolutely Know
Key Facts: BB&T will buy SunTrust Banks for $28.24 billion in an all-stock deal. The deal was agreed to be a merger of equals, valued at $66 billion. SunTrust and BB&T will become Truist. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019/Early Q1 2020. BB&T and SunTrust said the combined bank […]
Powerful & Valuable Strategies for First-Time Franchisees
As of last year, there were over 750,000* franchise establishments in America. Becoming a franchisee is a great way to start and grow an entrepreneurial venture. This isn’t a blank canvas, good franchisors already have a system that will save you time, energy and growing pains. The franchisor will provide you with the vendors, processes […]
18 Popular Tenants Taking Market Share in Orlando
Back in 2009, I realized that the identification of key retail & restaurant concepts was crucial to success in this industry. That prompted me to start a Retail Database that became a comprehensive spreadsheet of more than 750 retail & restaurant concepts operating in Central Florida. It was how I would wrap my arms around […]
Reasons Bloggers Have a Monumental Advantage on Social Media
Part 1: Heeded Advice & My Inspiration I published my first LinkedIn article on 4/20/19 as the conclusion to my five-part Cannabis series. I still believe in today’s business climate and political climate, “there is no other industry that better epitomizes the interweaving of relevance and controversy.” After writing that article, I experienced an instantaneous, fundamental, […]
Reasons for Unprecedented Growth of LinkedIn Videos & How to Capitalize
Intermittent, random and typically trivial internet videos inundate my LinkedIn weekly and are an annoyance all of us inevitably face. That’s why Archon Media has decided to dive head-first into vlogs with a few colleagues, friends and trusted advisors a few weeks ago. Some days it feels like more like a solicitous stream of talking […]
7 ICSC Prep Secrets
Looking for tips and tricks on how to prep for ICSC? Read this article to learn seven secrets we’ve gathered through our years of experience. 1. Always research the attendee list Break them up into three categories: Meeting Targets: Reach out at least a few weeks in advance to set up a meeting. Conversation Targets: […]
12 Practical Tips to Boost Your Tenant Representation Process
As a part of the Archon Optimization series, I wanted to share some insights on two critical areas of our retail tenant representation process—homework and site tours. These are tips and strategies that we’ve learned over the years. Our goals are to be efficient and help our clients find extremely successful locations. I hope you […]
How to Battle Financial Giants and Triumph
In competitive business and life, you will inevitably end up tussling with a larger opponent who has more resources and is more aggressive. In ancient times, it was the country with the largest or most adept army that would triumph. In modern times, the equivalent of a Roman legionnaire is a bank account with a […]
7 Smart Ways to Learn From a Hurricane
Hurricanes are like political elections, everything you ingest from news and friends is speculative chatter that is trivial until right before the event. As a native Floridian, and I have seen this same Greek tragedy for years. The pundits use emotion words, embellish potential catastrophic scenarios all to drive ratings. I am saying to prepare, […]
