With a retailing style that is a cross between an old-fashioned family doctor and a no-nonsense general launching an assault, Mr. Frumkies's highly personalized hand-holding technique keeps customers coming back.
Often personalized, hand-made invites are even more meaningful.
Mr. Grumbach, who has tried to encourage designers who are successful outside the big-brand league, said he believed that the interest in having personalized and hand-fitted clothes has helped the "smaller," but not necessarily younger, designers grow successful businesses.
And to combat feelings of exclusion, the Parent Teacher Association is trying to curtail a longstanding tradition of seventh graders and eighth graders showing up en masse Monday morning wearing the personalized sweatshirts handed out to the popular crowd at the weekend's bar or bat mitzvahs.
Po 3D prints personalized prosthetic hands for the needy in South America.
On the other hand, personalized medicine is the application of an individual's personal genetic profile to predict disease, prevent disease through medical interventions, and make decisions about lifestyle and disease management based on the needs of each individual patient.
The Washington Post, on the other hand, personalized their numbers by including the disjointed narratives of a few dozen incidents, superimposing events like the tragic final moments of a patient with mental illness next to stories of bona fide police heroism.
Power has not been so centralized and personalized in the hands of one man since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the republic in 1923.
All this to say, when Calloway announced she'd be going on a "world tour" late last year, offering attendees personalized care packages, hand-tossed salads, and a wealth of inspiration for just ( just!) $165 a head, I had no doubt that young, starry-eyed women like myself would gobble up tickets.
