Aug. 17, 2012
Dear friend,Today I am a deer caught in headlights. Each eye blinded by one customer's challenge.By random selection I'm obligated to write a message which somehow persuades you to buy branded packaging while using homophones (same sounding words which have at least two meanings and spellings) [...]
July 10, 2012
One summer day between my 8th and 9th grade years two entirely unrelated events changed my life:First, I became keenly aware that 20-30 excess pounds I carried contributed mightily to the fact that pretty girls did not notice me. Second, my wonderful mother, out of the blue, baked up a scrumpt [...]
June 21, 2012
In the days of my youth, a whopping fourteen years ago, I was part of a two man improv team called "Give It Up!."We would be invited to youth gatherings and conferences where we would select some courageous volunteer victims. These willing guinea pigs would receive a crash course in improvisat [...]
May 15, 2012
On May 7, 2012 at 5:46 AM, a 6 lb.10 oz package arrived into our world a couple of weeks early. My daughter's name is Piper Jade Fialkoff. She, her mom and her dad are very happy and healthy.Amazingly, though she is only 15 days old today she has already spoken her first full sentence. I want [...]
April 15, 2012
I've started writing this on about five different occasions, and after a sentence or two I end up pounding on my backspace button because I'm not at all pleased with what is coming out of my fingers. I want to blame it on writer's block but that's not the case. I am keenly aware that life has [...]
March 15, 2012
My oldest son Nate, like many 13 year-olds, is a bit tech-obsessed (though I'm strangely satisfied by the fact that he is one of three kids in his middle school that does not have a cell phone). Through his love affair with i-Toys, Nathan reminds me that retail business and life don't always s [...]
Jan. 19, 2012
In my early 20's I was a naive idealist. I believed that I could somehow emulate the lives and attributes of my favorite heroes. However, I found that the cleverness of Bugs Bunny, the charisma of Hulk Hogan, the superpowers of Underdog and the selflessness (not to mention the perfect tenor vo [...]
Dec. 15, 2011
In this month's blog post, we want to show you how grateful we are.You see, for over fifty years our family-run business (much like your business) has depended on the holiday season to make ends meet; to feed some never-gone-hungry children, to take a few memorable vacations; to pay a few over [...]
Nov. 19, 2011
This month’s blog post starts with a song: “Three cheers for the bus driver, the best of them all!”As kids, we would sing this song most loudly when our big orange-yellow kid-carrier would go over a speed bump! We coudn’t wait to be thrown out of our seats, up into the air, and if we were luck [...]
Oct. 14, 2011
For this month's blog post, I want to share a story, and an idea, with you.A few days ago I was sitting with a group of friends when one of them said, "How do people with full-time jobs ever get anything done?"We all laughed. However our laughter was inspired by the truth that we recognized. M [...]
Sept. 22, 2011
In this month's blog post I'm going to do something that is completely unexpected, entirely off the wall and downright crazy. I'm actually going to write about packaging.There is one program we have at Specialty Box and Packaging that really excites me (imagine that, getting excited about pack [...]
Aug. 15, 2011
At the risk of being too personal, I'm probably going to be too personal.On Friday August 26 at 1:45pm I, Eric Michael Fialkoff, will be getting married to my best friend. I'm excited to share this news with you (by the way, don't be too troubled that you receive this news by email; my family [...]
