by Stan Phelps | Jul 13, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Last week the P!NK GOLDF!SH rolled into Memphis and we celebrated the patron saint of P!NK GOLDF!SH 2.0. His name is Clarence Saunders. 105 years ago Clarence challenged norms by doing less than all the other grocery stores. We call this P!NK flawsome strategy...
by Stan Phelps | Jul 9, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Stopped at Buc-ees on my way to Ft. Worth, Texas a week ago. There is Texas-sized and then there is Buc-ees sized.A bit of background – On July 28, 1982, Arch Aplin III opened his first convenience store in Texas. Early on, he decided he’d need a good name and a...
by Stan Phelps | Jul 7, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
How did Seinfeld become the most successful TV sitcom of all time? They did it with a radical Pink Goldfish approach called Opposing. Creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David decided to do the opposite of the tried and true standard.Instead of an embrace and a learning...
by Stan Phelps | Jul 6, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
For the second time in my 9 years in Raleigh, the city was under siege. This time it was a Zebra Spitting Cobra that held the city captive for three days.Dubbed Snakegate by the media, it followed the missing snake that was first reported in a 911 call. It soon became...
by Stan Phelps | Jul 5, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Matthias Schlitte embraces the Pink Goldfish mindset. He doubles down on what makes him weird and does less of what others do as normal. Matthias began practicing arm-wrestling when he was 16. But he only trains the muscles in his right arm. When you see a picture of...
