What will Amazon's announcement mean for Nashville's housing market? Now 5,000 of the company’s jobs — with an average annual salary of $150,000 — are coming to Nashville. [source: Tennessean] The addition of thousands more white-collar employees to the city, both from Amazon and other companies, could push up housing prices, experts say. Some neighborhoods
Welcome to the Mobile Era, the Era of Big Data, the App Era, the Cloud Era—whichever name you prefer, we can all agree on its chief message... that the days of "business as usual" are over. Innovation—specifically, continuous innovation—is essential for companies looking to shape their future and forge new paths. [source: FastCompany] The shift
LinkedIn report says small businesses are becoming more astute users of social media for marketing. Small and midsize businesses play an important role in our economy. Every day, they fight for our attention while also trying to gain any leverage they can over the big box retailers like Amazon, Target, Walmart, and more. There’s no
How Small Business Owners Are Wrecking Their Own Chances Of Success A couple of weeks ago, I found myself drawn to an article (“Are You An Ignorant Small Business Owner?”) on Amex Open Forum. Certainly not!, I huffed. Then – wait, am I? [source: Forbes] Having read the article, by marketing specialist Rieva Lesonsky, I was relieved
A sneak peek at the Retail Design Philosophy that has made Apple the world’s most successful retailer Purely on a sales per square meter basis, Apple is indisputably the greatest retailer in the world. In a branding article we wrote earlier this year for The Melbourne Review titled; ‘Walking with Retail Dinosaurs’, we pointed