9 Extinct or Nearly Extinct Brands That Still Have a Share in My Head
Try as I might, I can't forget them...
2. KB Toys - or KayBee Toy & Hobby
Miller SQA stood for "Simple, Quick, Affordable." It was Herman Miller's way of selling slim downed product lines with shorter lead times than their typical 6-8 weeks. As a sales rep for them more than two decades ago, I loved it. I didn't realize what was happening behind the scenes. https://www.fastcompany.com/56840/herman-millers-leap-faith For quite a while, it was huge. And then it wasn't. I'm a 23 year old salesperson who had just won a laptop in a company contest. It's 1995, though, so I have no idea what to do with it. Our top sales rep slips a 3.5" disc in my shirt pocket. It's a copy of Maximizer, the first CRM told I ever used. It changes everything for how I think about sales. Amazingly, they're still around but I haven't used it more than two decades. https://www.maximizer.com/ This one won't sound recent to people who know it. Just a few months ago, Pardot was retired for the name, uh, "Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement." I remember when it was a fifty person start-up in Atlanta. I wonder how long my customers will call it Pardot?
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