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The Future Of Experiential Retail

... flowers, cooking, mixology, yoga) in a store and another four in 10 Trendsetters in both countries (41% in the U.S. and 38% in the UK) are interested in doing this. When it comes to participating in a social event (e.g., wine/food tasting, networking hour) in a store, half of Trendsetters in the U.S, along with four in 10 Trendsetters in the UK, have done this, and around one-third of this cohort in both countries (36% of Trendsetters in the UK and 33% in the U.S.) have not but are interested in doing ...

The New Social Norms

... lives, they're devoting a portion of it to networking. As they see it, it's strategic to (Net)Work Hard, Play Hard simultaneously, since this allows them to hang out with others who have a shared interest and it helps them progress in their careers. In doing so, they're being purposeful about forming friendships that can help them personally.ME TIME VS. WE TIMEIn seeking fewer, quality friendships and interactions and more purposeful social experiences, young adults are striving to create a better ...

Marketing Tips

... experience for consumers, emphasizing human connection over technological novelty. Facebook Spaces At F8, Facebook’s developer conference, the company announced a new iteration of its social networking platform. Facebook Spaces is a way to hang out with friends using virtual reality, compatible with Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset. Users build avatars that hang out in virtual environments, like a boardwalk or movie set, where they can take selfies and draw pictures. If a user’s friends don’t have the ...

Retail 2.0: Tech-Based Commerce

... Little Red Book, began as a sort of travel diary for social networking—a way for users (primarily women) to share photos of places they'd visited, things they'd bought overseas, and beauty items that were hard to find in China. Eventually it expanded into e-commerce, actually selling the items that were pictured. Today it has over 100 million users and is even expanding into offline sales: it recently opened a brick-and-mortar store in Shanghai.Google LensThe tech giant added this feature to ...

No New Friends

... with similar interests don’t have the built-in social network provided by a workplace with such people. Fortunately the scope of networking is growing, and people are combining the process of making professional and personal connections, which will provide more possibilities to make friends (see [Net]Work Hard, Play Hard).Although online dating has seen overwhelming success in recent years, apps for forming friendships have not experienced such popularity. Only 18% of UK youth and 17% in the U.S ...

Users Anonymous

... , and more, all anonymously. Developed around the concept of “Zero Knowledge Privacy,” it, unlike most other file sharing services, does not maintain user activity logs or even require users to create accounts.LOUM is a social networking app that facilitates both public and anonymous sharing and networking within local communities. According to CEO and co-founder Alex Potrivaev, the app is currently the only platform of its kind that provides users with an anonymity option. The first iteration of ...

Office Space

... incorporate shared office facilitates into some of its retail stores, beginning with three in the Boston area. Workbar operates the locations, offering co-working memberships, pre-scheduled meeting space, and access to its in-person and online community for networking. Each office space includes high-end workstations, conference rooms, private phone rooms, printers, and unlimited coffee and tea.Scandinavian Airlines’s SAS City Lounge Frequent flyers of Scandinavian Airlines seeking office space can ...

The Privacy Premium

... , according to some reports, receiving anywhere from 4k to 30k+ requests an hour. The platform is being positioned as an empowerment tool in that it provides users with “a place to connect, create, and celebrate life” without becoming a product themselves.Social networking app Room allows users to create and join mini private chat rooms that require just a nickname and avatar. Anyone can create a network, then invite others to join using a password. The app promises “what happens in the room, stays in the ...

For Love And Money

... | Owning the company | A company car | A corner office 20% of employed Ys feel social pressure to earn a promotion at work. SOCIAL NETWORKING While cash is king, 77% of young adults agree that people can be successful in their careers even if you don’t make a lot of money. Other factors, such as a positive work environment and fun coworkers add value to the workplace. This is evidenced by the fact that the majority of those who are employed want their work environment to feel like a support system ...

Men Today

... supplementing traditional, go-to male sources, like Esquire and GQ, is a new crop of guidance blogs for men: among them, The Art of Manliness, Electrogent, The Aspiring Gentleman, Primer, and Valet. Content on these and likeminded sites ranges from instructional (how to achieve “gentlemanly conversation”) to motivational (on embracing your “masculine strength”) to practical (guides to effective office networking), and covers categories of modern manliness ranging from style to manners to being a better ...