Key Questions to Ask Stakeholders for Big Data/BI Reporting Initiatives

Topics: Advertising, App Development, Branding, Business, Creative, Design, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Sales, SEO, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Jackie Ta

Big Data |Key Concepts in Data Analytics – Key Questions to Ask Stakeholders for Big Data/BI Reporting Initiatives Data, metrics, trends, information, dashboards, sales, leads, opportunities, and business decisions – do these words pique your interest? Throughout my career in the business analysis and business intelligence arena, I’ve helped the business make informed decisions through […]

Social Games | 4 User Profiling Essentials for Branding and Apps Development

Topics: Advertising, App Development, Branding, Business, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Mobile Apps, Sales, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Jackie Ta

Are you turning your life into a game? Some consumers are. To some, life is just a game. With the recent, increased rise of gamification, companies are taking notice and using gamification-related activities and mobile devices to entice users to interact with their brands.  Gamification is an integration of game design concepts and mechanics into […]

Marketing | A New Online Approach to Using Consumer Surveys to Reach Your Target Audience

Topics: Advertising, Branding, Business, Ideas, Innovation, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Motivation, SEO, Strategy, Success, Technology By: Jackie Ta

Marketing | A New Online Approach to Using Consumer Surveys to Reach Your Target Audience Have you ever wondered if your packaging or logo will produce the right results? Have you ever been uncertain about whether creating a new feature or enhancing an existing feature for your product will be better? Have you ever got […]

Will JJ Abrams Carry on Rod Serling’s Legacy?

Topics: Branding, Business, Careers, Creative, Culture, Film, Filmmaking, Innovation, Inspiration, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Motivation, Movies, Perseverance, Success By: David Konow

We didn’t have the term “show runner” back in the day, but Rod Serling was absolutely one of the first. The Twilight Zone was his baby, and everybody knew he wasn’t just the host, but the key creative force behind it. So now that the news has come, via the Hollywood Reporter, that JJ Abrams […]

Social Media – Targeted Ads – Personal Assistant or Big Brother?

Topics: Advertising, Branding, Business, Innovation, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Sales, SEO, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Jackie Ta

Search Engines & Social Media| Targeted Ads – Personal Assistant or Big Brother? Technology has changed the way we are learning, shopping, sharing, connecting, and being entertained. As a result, search engines including AOL, Bing, Yahoo, and Google are discovering the latest and greatest goldmine with search engine marketing, advertising, and targeted ads. Major social […]

Video Production | 11 Essentials for Maximizing the Return on Your Online Video Investments

Topics: Achievement, Advertising, Branding, Business, Creative, Design, Events, Ideas, Innovation, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Motivation, Sales, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Jackie Ta

Video Production | 11 Essentials for Maximizing the Return on Your Online Video Investments The proliferation of videos to multiple platforms and device types makes it vital in today’s always-on, socially demanding and instantaneous connections. Delivering relevant, engaging content to the right audience, the right platforms, and the right devices has become essential. Video is […]

7 Encouraging Ways to Deal with Difficult Personalities

Topics: Business, Careers, Culture, Ideas, Inspiration, Leadership, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Motivation, Perseverance, Sales, Success By: Jackie Ta

Have you ever felt the pulse beating, face-flushing, word-sputtering frustration and bewilderment of having to deal with egotistical, belligerent, hardcore bully? What about the frustration of dealing with negative Ned or Nancy? People pleaser?  Bad, incompetent bosses?  We all have to deal with these types of personalities (some more than others, unfortunately), and at times, […]

Mobile Apps – To App Or Not To App?

Topics: Advertising, App Development, Branding, Business, Creative, Design, Ideas, Innovation, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Sales, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Dina Gachman

Unless your business is centered around an app, you might think twice about creating one. “We’re not a huge corporation,” might be your line of thinking. “We don’t need to spend the money on something like that.” But come on now, it is 2013. Even small business that are not tech-centric should think about creating […]

Marketing Tools – Haiku Deck: Simple Presentations Right at Your Fingertips

Topics: Advertising, App Development, Branding, Business, Design, Ideas, Innovation, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Motivation, Perseverance, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Dina Gachman

We all remember the days of laboring over intricate school projects, which then led to even more complex college presentations. Then, you enter the work world and creating and showing presentations takes on a whole new dimension. PowerPoint has its charms – or, more accurately, its uses – but diving into a PowerPoint presentation can […]

Game Apps Development | 14 Essentials for Building Your App Brand

Topics: Advertising, App Development, Branding, Business, Culture, Design, Ideas, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Sales, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Technology, Web Design By: Jackie Ta

What do apps such as Angry Birds, Where’s My Water, Cut the Rope, and Fruit Ninja have in common and why are they so popular? They offer compelling game plays through easy to understand and fun to interact through an entertaining design. They set the bar for the way app games should be – simple […]