Concerns for the health of our environment and people have been an important issue for decades. The once unofficial corporate response to these concerns has grown from a pestilent “They’re just a bunch of tree huggers”, some time ago, to general acceptance in the business world. The realization that sustainable products and services were experiencing...Read More

There is a lot of hype finding its way into print about just how the post-pandemic economy of 2020 will mirror that of the previous devastating pandemic of 1918. The span of more than one hundred years apart hasn’t dampened the bevy of prognosticators’ enthusiasm for predicting a post-COVID-19 recovery that will be similar to...Read More

Like caged animals deprived of natural freedom to roam and explore, the public is eager to break out and head for some much-deserved rest and relaxation after more than a year of almost total travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the immediate desire to lift some travel bans and experience a wide distribution...Read More

Now that a glimmer of light is appearing on the horizon after more than a year of business closures and sequestrations, the question for many businesses and marketers is: Now what? The COVID-19 pandemic imposed restrictive actions on every type of commerce. If ever there was a time that defied historic experience it has been...Read More

Fashion trends are typically cyclical, the most successful examples repeating every 20 years or every two-scores. Like blockbuster movies that often spawn an equally successful sequel, sellers of retro-fashions typically take a risk that the styles being resurrected will find favor in an era that is completely new. Most recurring fashions that find acceptance in...Read More

Image Credit: Parilov / Shutterstock The pandemic of 2020 spared very few industries and marketers from its wrath. Forced closures and lockdowns altered the very fundamentals of long-standing business models that were often static for decades. For the fitness industry, the broad swath of disruption by everything tech was changing its landscape long before the arrival...Read More

If you know someone who chooses to be a vegetarian or a vegan, you know someone who wouldn’t be caught dead (no pun intended) in a fast-food restaurant specializing in serving former members of the animal kingdom. It’s not that being vegetarian or vegan is bad somehow or restaurants are acting in some disparaging tactics...Read More

Believe it or not, we have once again come full circle on another year. Marketing prognosticators are polishing their crystal balls of future things to come and declaring how technology will revolutionize our channels of communication with consumers in 2019.  Last year’s predicted trends are being measured against reality, and the process is becoming akin...Read More

With the booming economy, most businesses are entering the time of year when just keeping ahead of the day-to-day demands of the consumer is daunting. Just like that it’s time to start strategic planning for 2019. For those who say they are ready to get out in front and get started on planning for next...Read More

At the coming of the end of each calendar year there comes a practice that appears to be an unavoidable part of our culture. It is understandable that at the end of something there certainly must be a beginning of something else, a sort of evolutionary ideology that mandates a certain continuity of things both...Read More