No one used to love shopping in stores on Black Friday more than I did. It was a ritual that started with my mother on Thanksgiving morning, before the turkey and stuffing even made it into the oven. Getting the morning paper was like Christmas Day, with the anticipation of shopping. We’d map out our [...]
Nov 06, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, Media, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Amazon, Best Buy, Black Friday, cloud, Deloitte, holiday sales, holiday shopping, IBM, mobile, mobile apps, mobile shopping, National Retail Federation, online shopping, retail, retailer, shopping, shopping stampede, SOASTA, the economy | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] The words “business” and “business leader” often conjure up Dow Jones–size companies and the big names who lead them. We’re almost as fascinated by stars of big business as by stars of the big screen. And why not? A recent Forbes article pleading “Bring Back the Celebrity CEO” makes the case [...]
Oct 22, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, apps, Bill Gates, blog, branding, Burnt Peaks, business, business leader, CEOs, Chris MacAskill, community, company brands, customers, Dollar Shave Club, Don MacAskill, Facebook, fitness, Forbes, Internet, iPhone, James Mairs, Jeff Bezos, King of Shaves, Meg Whitman, personal branding, personal brands, Phil Knight, purpose, Queen of Shaves, Richard Branson, RunKeeper, Silicon Valley, small businesses, SmugMug, Social Media, taking risks, Tony Hsieh, Twitter, Venture for America, Will King, Zappos | Leave A Comment »
In the 11 years since it launched, Wikipedia has changed the world as we know it. Not only has the free, collaboratively edited encyclopedia redefined the meaning of “expert,” but it’s been blamed for everything from diminishing traditional journalism to killing Encyclopaedia Britannica. In any case, it’s being taken more seriously than ever: U.S. political [...]
Jul 12, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, British government, British government Wikipedia, Congress, content, Google, information architecture, Jimmy Wales, Netflix, newscrafting, online reputation, Politics, Reddit, search engines, smartphones, social media trends, White House, Wikipedia, Wikipedia blacked out, Wikipedia blackout, writing Wikipedia pages | Leave A Comment »
It’s official: “fairy-tale story” and “self-publishing” can now be used in the same sentence. Exhibit A: English author Kerry Wilkinson, 31, outperformed all other authors on Kindle in the final quarter of 2011 when he sold 250,000 copies of his debut detective novel. This and other success stories are prompting 2012 to be called the [...]
Mar 05, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, Apple, author, e-book, e-publishing, iBooks Author, Inkling Habitat, Kerry Wilkinson, Kindle, Nook, publishing trends, self-publishing, writer | Leave A Comment »
Mark Zuckerberg would have you believe that we’re sharing more personal information online today than ever because we’re now in “complete control” over who gets access to it. The Facebook founder recently took to Facebook’s blog to address the site’s settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which determined that Facebook deceived consumers over the years [...]
Jan 05, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends | Tags: ACLU, Amazon, Congress, corporate responsibility, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, individual responsibility, Kindle Fire, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy, social media trends, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] Everybody’s talking about the inevitable social media fatigue setting in, but I myself am having a wicked case of brain blur. At any given time, my head is filled with ways to solve problems that often have no answer, as in trying to make sense of how to communicate [...]
Nov 04, 2011 | Categories:Features, Marketing, Media, PR, Social Media | Tags: ABC, Amanda Knox, Amazon, blur, brain blur, J.C. Penney, Jeff Bezos, Marketing, McDonald's, Microsoft, Missoni, PR, public relations, Social Media, social media fatigue, Steve Jobs, Target, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Yahoo | Leave A Comment »
As I reflect on the brain more than ever this year, I’ve been thinking about how dumb we’ve all become in the hopes of getting smart. It all started with those Dummies books that used to be wildly popular (although there are 753 of them listed on Amazon and they keep coming, so someone must [...]
Jan 20, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Marketing, Social Media | Tags: advice, Amazon, brain, Cliffs Notes, conversation, dad, daddy bloggers, Dummies books, Esquire, Google, how to, marketers, metrosexual, Procter & Gamble, sex, The New York Times | Leave A Comment »
This is the third in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. There’s a loss-of-faith crisis, and it’s as movement-ready as the one that led Jerry Rubin to pen the Yippie manifesto in 1968. [...]
Dec 01, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, Barbra Streisand, Brands, Chemistry.com, China, communication, connectivity, consumption, convenience, Copains d'avant, CPM, Diet Coke, divorce, Duck Sauce, e-commerce, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, faith, Foursquare, France, FreshDirect, Google, Gowalla, India, ineractivity, institutions, Internet, iPhone, Japan, Jerry Rubin, LinkedIn, Match.com, Mentos, Microsoft, mobile, niche, Orkut, personal CPMs, QQ, Richard Nixon, self-reliance, smart phone, Social Media, Technology, Thumbman, Trends, trendspotting, Twitter, U.K., values, Yahoo, Yippie, YouTube | 8 Comments »
