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• Notes on Recruiting Talent in a Knowledge Economy As part of my work with Joe Urban, I was invited to the Minnesota Chapter of the Urban Land Institute Young Leaders Group’s panel discussion on attracting and retaining young, creative people in Minnesota. On the panel: Jeff Berg from Olson Molly Culligan from M. Culligan Associates Michael Logan from Target Philippe Vergne from Walker Art Center Jay Walljasper from
• Wal-Mart.com Tests Ship-To-Store Big box retailers are continuing their search for the Holy Grail of Retail - increasing merchandise selection without increasing real estate costs. For years,
• Picky Customer or Circling Vulture Jen and I went to a mall on Saturday. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a mall on a Saturday afternoon. I left buying nothing and feeling extremely uninspired to shop. I now know why Target sold Marshall Field’s last year to May Department Stores and why May Department Stores is praying to
• Podcasting is Ron Popeil for the Radio Mark Ramsey at Radio Marketing Nexus nails the value of podcasting to business: Podcasting is to Radio spots as infomercials are to TV spots. I’ve used the informercial comparison before, I’m glad others see it also. The traditional model of commerical spots interrupting a regularly scheduled program falls apart in podcasting. Podcasts can shrink and expand to
• How Netflix Could Use Recommendations To Increase Subscriptions One of the challenges of highly customer-driven systems like the iPod, Tivo, and Netflix is the keeping it fresh. I wrote about my experience with this problem last fall (New, Unexpected Music on Your iPod). I’m sensing the same “2,000 songs and nothing’s on” wall with Netflix. Sure, there are 50 discs in our queue