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Multi-channel branding fits the way consumers shop today

April 13, 2010

The lure of the Internet is that it’s a quick one-stop marketing solution — search, display, web site, conversion, sale — that puts a business within reach of the majority of U.S. shoppers.

This easy lure can obscure the value of creating a multi-channel brand, using multiple media and marketing messages, in order to stay prominently [...]

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The recession, household formation, the housing market and the recovery in the rental markets

April 9, 2010

The U.S. economy lost more than 1 million households during the recession, even as the population grew more than 3.5 million, driving down home ownership and increasing rental vacancies at a rate that hasn’t been experienced in more than a generation.
Just as economic distress reduced households, economic recovery will increase households, concludes USC professor Gary [...]

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Some economic reasons why we don’t need to keep looking over our shoulders.

April 9, 2010

I was reminded this week of a primary premise in evolutionary psychology: we’re genetically programmed to emphasize information about danger and minimize information about pleasure.
This is a gross simplification of interesting science, but is a useful overlay to the confluence of economic statistics and contradictory commentary in recent weeks.
In today’s New York Times, the [...]

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Does the new healthcare plan contain disincentives to buy insurance?

March 23, 2010

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The shift in education and income demographic is a harbinger of future change

March 23, 2010

The past few weeks, hidden beneath the clamor about healthcare reform (a word I use loosely), there’s been a lot of interesting data and commentary around gender, class, earnings and income.
The highlights: More women are better educated than men, higher earnings accrue to people with more education and less educated people have less [...]

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Most marketers look to social media to increase web traffic and improve results, a new survey shows

March 3, 2010

What’s the most important and tangible goal for marketers using social media? To drive web traffic, according to an ongoing benchmarking study conducted by the consulting firm MarketingSherpa.
73% of the more than 2300 respondents to the MarketingSherpa survey says they target the goal of increasing web traffic, and measure results against that goal, when [...]

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I’m a Millennial! (just because a survey said so.)

February 24, 2010

Look at this!  I’m more of a Millennial than a Millenial, according to Pew Research.
I think that the big driver of my score was the absence of TV watching and my propensity to use social media and mobile communications devices.
I wish the score meant that you would have to pay more attention to what I [...]

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