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The phenomenon of Internet users sharing their opinions about products and services online is well into the mainstream now, with large etailers like Amazon.com encouraging customer reviews, sites like TripAdvisor asking travellers to review lodging in destinations around the world and ratings systems for buyers to evaluate sellers on sites like ebay and others. Online, … Read more
One of the things I have noted over the past year of blogging is that this blog receives a significant amount of traffic from locations outside of the US. Intended or not, this blog has a global audience. But like most of my fellow bloggers based in a single country, I don’t do much to … Read more
Like most other parents of a one and a half year old, my house is filled with books. Picture books, soft books, waterproof books, popup books, touch and feel books, or Dr. Seuss books. You name the type of kids book, and we probably have one lying around somewhere. But even in this home library … Read more
Along with the new year comes the new year’s resolution, and marketers tired annual attempts to make their own products and services a part of that resolution. But the best resolutions are the easiest to keep, and what could be easier than the universal piece of dieting advice almost every "guru" offers … drink more … Read more
For a woman, the perfect handbag is an illusion worth chasing. Handbags are not functionality, they are an expression of style and personality. As a result, they are almost sacred. From my numerous voluntary (and involuntary) discussions on the subject with many women, I have uncovered that there are five brands of handbags that are … Read more
I have been involved in enough campaigns to know that I am not my target audience. Now that I have passed from my 20s into the 30s, I can no longer claim to understand teenagers and get away with it. But just because I am not the target audience doesn’t mean there isn’t a value … Read more
On my way to a meeting in New York yesterday for a client in the travel industry, I started to consider the convergence of research reports that I have seen recently on both moms and travel booking online. A Disney-commissioned audience segmentation I read some time ago noted the following key segments of moms: "Tech … Read more
MarketingSherpa released a case study today about how Gymboree revised their website to better meet the needs of busy moms shopping for children’s clothing online. Some interesting lessons in here for any campaign targeting moms, including: Moms are multi-tasking at certain times of the day – "moms are so busy that they’re hopping online as … Read more
Content creation online is exploding, with over 53 million people (or 44% of all Internet users) having created and posted content online in 2004 – according to a Pew Internet Study. While the entire category of content creation sometimes seems hijacked by blogging and podcasting, another content creation activity is noted by this same report … Read more
Below is a list of helpful resources all about parents online, including who they are and how to reach them: Report on Parents Online – published in 2002 from Pew Internet Child and Family Web Guide – List of resources online compiled by researchers at Tufts University (primarily about child development) Purchasing power of Moms … Read more
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Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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