Online Means No More Shopping to Die For

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 »
Booting Up

This is the fifth 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. Watch out in 2011 for the return of skin-thickening boot camps to toughen up kids and employees for the rigors of the [...]
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories:Features, Trends | Tags: "60 Minutes", achievement gap, African American, Asian American, authoritative, boot camps, California, Caucasian, China, competitiveness, Deloitte, engineering, entitlement, experience, helicopter parents, Hispanic, India, kids, Michael Bloomberg, millennials, New York City, overprotection, parenting, Pew Research, resilience, Ron Alsop, science, self-discipline, team-oriented, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Friedman, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, trophy kids, young people | 5 Comments »




