There was a time when businesses could depend solely on the quality of their products to bring in new business. Success came from a company’s sole focus on delivering a dependable and highly functional product/service to the market. Today, that’s simply not the case. The majority of large brands have become marketing machines, competing against each other’s’ hype instead of being user-centric in the design of their products and services. Product differentiation has become a “me too†gimmick and is no longe
I learned of Sweet Lou’s passing today. A legendary, one of a kind woman who was a Minneapolis institution that ticked the ivories at Nye’s Polonaise Room for 45 years.
A group of us caught Lou’s act one last time during of her final month at Nye’s back in 2011.  I believe we were properly lubricated while the room sang “Sweet Caroline” on what was a memorable night.
Thank you for sharing the gift of music for so many year.
A new commercial from Indian laundry detergent brand Ariel is seeking to close the housekeeping gap once and for all. As part of its campaign #ShareTheLoad, the company has released an ad in which a father apologizes to his grown daughter for teaching her retrograde gender stereotypes, including the fact that she should have to do all the housework in her family.
There was a time when businesses could depend solely on the quality of their products to bring in new business. Success came from a company’s sole focus on delivering a dependable and highly functional product/service to the market. Today, that’s simply not the case. The majority of large brands have become marketing machines, competing against each other’s’ hype instead of being user-centric in the design of their products and services. Product differentiation has become a “me too†gimmick and is no longe
