Surviving and Maximizing Sales This Holiday Season: Customer Service Authority Chip Bell Shares Insight
The holiday season is here and those who embrace new customer habits will win the sale. Forecasts anticipate consumers to shell out more than $630 billion dollars between now and Christmas. Chip Bell offers crucial insight for business leaders to do a reality check and ultimately conquer competition. LAKE OCONEE, GA, – November 10– Ready or […]
Animated GlowBalls From GeekMyTree Bring the Fun and Excitement of Outdoor Light Shows Inside, With No Programming or Complicated Setup
This Christmas season, GeekMyTree is giving festive consumers a way to wow friends with a first-of-its-kind indoor light show experience. The Michigan-based startup’s flagship product, Animated GlowBalls, provides an affordable, hassle-free way to create sophisticated, brilliant, full-color light shows for 6-8 foot Christmas trees. Animated GlowBalls are available today at GeekMyTree website, Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland – the […]
Former-Borders Exec Starts Amazon® Competitor – PriceLocal Provides Local Shopping at Amazon Prices
Free service helps retailers compete with Amazon by offering online shoppers Amazon price matches and same-day pickup from local stores. November 18, 2015 – Ann Arbor, MICH—A new online service called PriceLocal, launching today across the United States, gives consumers the ability to browse on Amazon and then get exactly what they want from a local store willing […]
Millennials Unwrapped: Ypulse Releases Spending & Shopping Stats for Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2015
Ypulse, Inc., the leading authority on Millennials and teens, released today the results of their annual Holiday Shopping Survey. While all Millennials intend on doing some holiday shopping in 2015, nearly two-thirds (65%) have stablished a budget for their spending this year. Millennials intend to spend, on average, $352 on holiday shopping in 2015 and […]
International Gift Delivery Company Continues Breaking the Language Barrier in Chinese
GiftBasketsOverseas.com continues to grow, this time with its eye on China. GiftBasketsOverseas.com, the experts in international gift delivery, announced today the launch of its webpage in Chinese http://www.giftbaskets.com.cn, along with its mobile device counterpart http://m.giftbaskets.com.cn. This launch continues the company’s mission to provide services and websites in the native languages of its customers, rather than making them rely […]
Editor’s Note
Just when we thought we were done with Winter by the teasing temperatures last week, I look outside on this first day of Spring, and see more snow falling! Another 3”- 6” by the time it is done. We in the Northeast have had quite enough of those frozen puffs of water! But I did […]
Client Relationship RX: Seven Tough Clients and How to Win Them Over
They’re not always smooth sailing, but most client relationships can be salvaged. Andrew Sobel, coauthor of Power Relationships, identifies some of the toughest types of clients—and explains what you can do to cope with them. You’re a master at the work you do. Unfortunately, you’ve got one client (or maybe more than one) who’s so hard […]
Forget the ‘Likes’ – How to Market Effectively Using Today’s Facebook
3 Ways to Benefit from Paid Ads & Boosted Posts It seems nothing changes faster than the big social media platforms — Facebook, Twitter, Google+. No sooner do marketers figure out how to best promote a product or business than they change the rules! That’s been especially true for Facebook, which had to find new […]
35 Percent of Shoppers Make Purchases on Their Mobile Devices
An ongoing shopper behavior study conducted by The Integer Group® and M/A/R/C Research shows that in just 2 years, shoppers using mobile devices to make purchases has increased by 10 percent (from 25 percent in 2012). Increased mobile purchasing by Hispanics (+11 percent YOY), Asian-Americans (+10 percent YOY), and the 15–34 and 35–49 age brackets (+10 percent […]
Noah’s Ark Themed Arch
I was sent a picture from a customer that she’d seen on Pinterest and was asked to recreate this arch for a Noah’s Ark themed lake party. The client loved the way it turned out and said it was exactly what she wanted. The original artist (or maybe the photographer) was Kohoro according to the […]