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Melissa Campanelli

Melissa Campanelli is the co-founder of the Women in Retail Leadership Circle, a unique, members-only networking group that offers enterprise-level women in the retail industry a place to learn, connect and grow. She is also the brand and content director of the Retail and Travel Group at NAPCO Media. Prior to those positions, Melissa spent ten years at DM News, where she was first a senior editor and then deputy editor. She’s also a leading expert in small business e-commerce and author of the books “Entrepreneur Magazine’s Open an Online Business in 10 Days” and “55 Surefire Internet Businesses You Can Start for Under $5,000.” In her free time, Melissa loves exploring New York City and Brooklyn and spending time with her family.
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Stella & Dot's Founder on How to Find Your Extraordinary

Jessica Herrin, author, CEO and founder of jewelry and accessories retailer Stella & Dot, is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded WeddingChannel.com, the world’s leading wedding site. With a vision to create a new kind of company that would offer today’s busy woman a career alternative, Jessica wanted to use her savvy to help solve...

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Welcome Cindy Marshall, Our New Chief Membership Officer!

There are no lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer for the Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) right now. We’re working hard behind the scenes and, like the record heat in the Northeast right now, we’re on fire! For starters, we’re planning two great Girl Talk events that will take place this fall in New...

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Exclusive: Jan Singer on Life and Leadership

This episode of Women in Retail Talks features an interview with Jan Singer, the former CEO of Spanx and soon-to-be-CEO of Victoria’s Secret. Jan discusses a variety of issues around life and leadership, including how being a psychology major has helped in her career; the importance of being transparent; why moving forward from misses is...

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Podcasts to Picnic With

Earlier this summer, we brought you a list of Women in Retail Leadership Circle’s favorite summer beach reads. Well, ladies, we’d now like to share with you a few of our favorite female-hosted podcasts to listen to while lounging on the beach, picnicking in the park, or however you love to spend to your summer! HBR...

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Cool Company Seeks CMO!

One of Women in Retail Leadership Circle’s newest members, Julia Gudish Krieger, the founder and CEO of VillageLuxe.com, an invite-only peer-to-peer marketplace that lets women rent designer pieces from each others’ closets, is on the hunt for a chief marketing officer! Here’s some more information about Julia’s very unique company and the job description: Deemed “the...

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Elizabeth Arden Introduces New Signature Digital Campaign

We’re super excited about a new Elizabeth Arden digital campaign we heard about from Swan Sit, vice president of digital at the iconic beauty brand and board member of the Women in Retail Leadership Circle. The multiplatform digital campaign, “From the Desk of Liz Arden,” was launched last month and pays homage to the entrepreneurial...

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Women in Retail Leadership Circle: Your Take on 'Gap Years'

The White House  announced earlier this month that Malia Obama, the oldest daughter of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, will attend Harvard University in the fall of 2017 after taking a “gap year.” Malia will be a member of the class of 2021. Higher education experts tout the off year as a way...

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We Want to Hear From Our Members!

The Women in Retail Leadership Circle is growing! Woot woot! Currently, we have more than 100 members and are getting more interest and inquiries every day. (If you’re not a member yet, you can apply here.) While growing our Circle is great (we’re super excited about it), it’s important that we offer the kinds of exclusive...

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WIRLC Survey: What Time of Day Are You Most Productive?

Editor’s Note: We goofed! Talk about being unproductive! We sent the Inner Circle out with a poll that asked what time of the day you are most productive, but the link didn’t work on most phones. So sorry! We’ve identified the issue and resolved it. If you have a minute, please vote in our poll!...

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Thank You From the Women in Retail Leadership Circle

Welcome to our Women in Retail Leadership Summit special edition of the Inner Circle. We came back from the Summit so energized and with so much great information to share that we couldn’t help ourselves but to send a special edition! Thanks to everyone who attended the Summit. You made it great! It was wonderful...

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