[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] It used to be that receiving a CEO title—and the corner office and tufted-leather sofa that came with it—was the acme of professional success. It was the recognition of a lifetime of hard work, of moving up the ranks, of following the path to its pinnacle. Once you’d arrived there, where [...]
Mar 22, 2013 | Categories:Brands, Features, Marketing | Tags: 20-something, ad sales, adventure, America's Cup, Arielle Patrice Scott, Bianca Bosker, Bill Gates, billionaire, brand, Bravo, cable TV, CEO, college, corner office, corporate, corporate brand, Daily Candy, daredevil, digital, dropout, entertainment, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Fandango, fearlessness, female entrepreneur, Green Is Universal, hard work, Harvard, Healthy at NBCU, Henry Ford, Hispanics at NBCU, innovation, innovators, integrated media, InternshipIn, iVillage, kite surfing, Larry Ellison, Lean In, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Marketing, mavericks, mobile, monetization, MTV, mun2, NBC Universal, Oxygen, personal brand, rebellion, revenue, Richard Branson, risk, risk taking, rule breaking, sailing, sexy, shareholders, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social, spiritual growth, Sprout, Stanford, startup, Steve Jobs, Technology, telecommuting, Telemundo, the Huffington Post, Thiel Fellowship, title, TV One, Virgin, Walt Disney, women, Women at NBCU, Yahoo | Leave A Comment »
For the second year that PR News has compiled a CSR A-List, Havas PR has been on it. This year, we were one of the chosen 10 for our long-term commitment to doing good work, especially our research into causes, our Baker’s Dozen initiative (donating $1 million in time for every $12 million in revenue), [...]
Jan 08, 2013 | Categories:Agency News, CSR, Media, PR, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Baker's Dozen, blog, Bulldog Reporter, CSR, CSR A-List, digital, Ellen DeGeneres, Ford Warriors in Pink, media relations, PR News, social, The French Will Never Forget, traditional media, Transitions Optical, Urban Zen Foundation, video | Leave A Comment »
Taking a lesson from the established popularity of fashionable food trucks, the retail industry is going mobile as well—with quirky clothing and accessories stores in vehicles as varied as rehabbed double-decker buses, school buses, Airstreams and Winnebagos. See Wanderlust, which sells vintage and handmade goods in Portland, Ore., from a 1969 converted travel trailer or [...]
May 23, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: boutiques on wheels, e-commerce, Fashion, fashion trends, fashion trucks, L'Oréal, mobile commerce, shopping trends, social, Social Media, taxi shops | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on Fuel the Future. As someone who has watched trends for many years and come up with a few buzzwords of my own, I’m amused and startled by this notion of “storytelling” as the newest bit of jargon working its way into our marketing/PR vernacular. In the canon of marketing, it seems fair [...]
Aug 31, 2011 | Categories:Advertising, Brands, Features, Marketing, PR, Trends | Tags: 1969, American Airlines, brand, digital, Gap, journalists, Madison Avenue, Marketing, media coverage, military, news, Nicolas Sarkozy, PR, public relations, social, stories, storytelling, transparency, Truth | Leave A Comment »
In a world gone blurry (work/life, life/work and back again), what’s a PR or marketing professional to do in terms of messaging? Maybe you’ve noticed, as I have, the fantastic confusion pertaining to transparency these days, in an age of SarbOx gone mad. Take my household’s morning routine: We’re big banana eaters, but I’m afraid [...]
May 31, 2011 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Trends | Tags: blogs, blur, Brand Me, Chiquita, core values, Facebook, Groupon, messaging, promotion, SarbOx, selling out, social, Social Media, tweets, Twitter, work-life balance | Leave A Comment »
