more bottoms in chairs and all those kind of slow times? maybe it s your personality, but i think if i was running a barbershop or retail store, there would be more stuff i would be doing. a couple things i have learned, just three. number one, if i was running a retail store i would have a database for my customers. anybody who walks in the store, they are going into the database. you re asking for their name and e-mail address to create a vip list. my wife and i get sushi once a week from a retail store nearby us. we are on the vip list and sure of all we get a newsletter, we get coupons once in a while, it keeps us coming back. it is like the dentist. you fill out the thing and they say, don t forget to come into the dentist. exactly. no matter what kind of retail store you are, a newsletter based around it, a once a month e-mail going out to advertise something or educate, which brings me to the next point, every retail store should be doing something to educate. because that b
bottoms? chairs? man, if i was running a barber shop or retail store, there would be more stuff i d be doing. a couple things i ve learned. just three. i would have a database for my customers. anybody who walks in the store they re doing into the store, asking them for their name and e-mail address so you can create a vip list. my wife and i get sushi once a week from this store by us. we re on their database. they send it to you from the dentist, saying don t forget to come into the dentist. right. no matter what kind of retail store you are, if you want to have a newsletter, a once a month e-mail to advertise something or educate, which brings me to the next point. every retail store should be doing something to educate. that brings in customers. the sushi restaurant, for example, i ll use them and there s a chai these restaurant, they do an education class a
investigations you re in the midst of or would like to see get more fully engaged in. you have the countrywide home loan. a special vip list. the s.e.c.-gold man filing. the administration s response to the oil spill. white house and google, google working with the white house for personal e-mail. treasury and housing programs. some of these seem like very serious allegations. people want to know connects to fannie and freddie. some seems petty like the white house google thing. i have so tay, do you look at it and say, all right, maybe we re petty on this one but do you wor it takes away from the focus of a more serious investigation like the countrywide? you know, i m the person that sort of followed in henry waxman s shoes a little bit an some of the things we are doing are mirrors of what he did under the bush administration, henry waxman went after failures of the bush administration to preserve every single e-mail in
have for michael jackson, and the security guard will put them on this stand here, and then they walk by. in a couple minutes, ali, at any time, the family members expected to show up here, including janet jackson. and they will come, sean p. diddy combs on the list. reverend al sharpton on the list. chris brown on the v.i.p. list. so a lot of folks expected to come to pay their respects for the late michael jackson. and these fans are doing it. so far you said about 740 people have shown up. yesterday, 1,000 people showed up. and it wasn t even open. so we ll see by the end of the day. don, you know, a year ago, prior to that, many people had speculated on, you know, jackson s death and is his potential to make money, and his fame around the world, what his next act was going to be, getting ready for this new concert and what his future was going to be. no one was speculating that he would die. what a time it s been in the last year, and it just it does not seem to be waning, his
anniversary of michael jackson s death. jackson s father is expected very shortly to file a wrongful death suit against the last doctor who treated him, dr. conrad murray. in the year since he died, jackson s estate has at least $1 billion, according to billboard. $429 million from record sales. $392 million from film and tv. $130 million from music publishing. don lemon spoke to michael jackson s family. reporter: let s talk about this. we re waiting for the family members to come up. there are lots of people ant vip list. you might recognize this person right here who is on the vip list. actually friends with randy jackson. hey, tony. we ve been talking about this for the last few weekz. darnell sutton is the business manager for randy and the other brothers.