I received my copy of The Multicultural Economy–Minority Buying Power in 2007 today in the mail from the University of GA’s Selig Center. And it confirms what I think we already know….ethnically diverse communities are key for any business! Here are a few gems:
The states that have the greatest Black buying power are New York, [...]
I’ve recently been introduced to the term Relationship Economy through Deborah Schultz’s blog. Deborah states that she has chosen to use the term “to describe the impact all this social media stuff is having on our world” and points to Jerry Michalski’s take on the subject:
Transactions are the by-products of healthy relationships.
The global [...]
The Brands Create Customers
blog has a very good post on the value of interaction to boost and
codify brand experience. He goes beyond the superficial and really
looks at the vital importance of brand interaction as way to build
customer base. He works on the levels of interaction between customer,
product, and company pointing out that there are hundreds [...]
Beth Snyder Bulik at AdAge says in a news report, "The $20 million-a-year FreeiPods.com site that has become a poster child of the increasingly important online incentive marketing business was originally started as a get a free condom come-on. The $20 million-a-year FreeiPods.com site that has become a poster child of the increasingly important online [...]
In the Global Ethics report I saw a piece on Wal-Mart seeking a Global Ethics Chief.
Facing numerous class-action lawsuits and ire from its employees, and
patrons Wal-Mart if finally looking to put a good face forward. From a
community standpoint it may be too late. I’m in the middle of Doug
Rushkoff’s ‘Get Back In the Box‘ and [...]
I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago and had a chance to
read Richard Florida’s new book, The Flight of the Creative Class. I
consider it a kind of companion piece to Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat
(now a #1 best-seller) because Florida is talking, as is Friedman, about the role that well-educated
knowledge and idea [...]
Pressure groups and charities have overtaken goverments, media and big business to become the worlds most trusted institutions, according to an international poll to be presented this week to the World Economic Forum.
An annual survey of attitudes suggests public trust has been eroded by scandals such as corporate malfeasance and discredited journalism. The survey found [...]
Using technology to manipulate the value of stocks may be easier than apparent. ABC World News had a report that companies were placing errant phone messages designed at duping investors into thinking that they are receiving a hot insider stock tip designed for someone else ears. The hope is the unsuspecting investor will act on [...]
Gosh, the other night I heard some business executives’ organization predicting that in 2005 there would be more jobs, lower oil prices, and business growth. Contrast that with this article I just stumbled across reporting that a well-placed financial analyst is forecasting a high probability of "economic Armageddon." Hmm, maybe he’s trying to create conditions [...]
Fret, fret! Am I off the wall in thinking a company like ACS ought to be thinking about Plan B: what do we do if energy prices keep going up, our cost of doing business increases, and we have to compete for scarce dollars going to oil?
Higher Oil Prices Soon To Squeeze Consumers
