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JANUARY 29, 2018

Mycoskie is no longer CEO — after selling much of his share in the firm to Bain Capital in 2014, he has since moved to the official role of Chief Shoe Giver and has focused his attention on what’s next for TOMS Shoes. TOMS’ social message — and commitment to donating as much as it sells — has put a spotlight on the brand.

social media 104

social media Study Branding San Francisco 104

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2016

Retail’s a tough racket. One minute, you can have the hottest product or store on the block — think Aéropostale about a decade ago — and the next, no one wants to buy the product any longer, the brand is now suddenly considered uncool and nobody’s shopping there any longer ( think Aéropostale today ).

San Diego 100

San Diego Portland Wyoming Oregon 100

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

Monica + Andy, which launched in 2014, started out with their “Cuddle Box” product: a hand-wrapped gift box that includes an organic blanket (in cotton or muslin) and a range of organic newborn essentials. The brand has expanded in both its digital and physical presence, boasting 250 percent year-over-year growth.

Boston 101

Boston Branding Innovation Online 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2018

and the World Cup (like in 2014, when the U.S. That has left an opening that Chinese brands are planning to spend — $832 million to fill on advertising — during the World Cup. Even among American brands making a major advertising push at the World Cup this year, the thrust of that advertising is very different, reports Digiday.

Regional 109

Regional Retail Branding Marketing 109

Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. Every business starts small. Today, I serve in the cabinet of the President of the United States.

National 150

National San Jose Los Angeles United States 150

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Our clients showed banking at its best – obsessed with customer well-being, good corporate citizenship, and strong community focus. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar! Bravo Brett and team!

Idaho 170

Idaho Community Industry Strategy 170

Independent Banker

AUGUST 9, 2016

Community banks should evaluate solutions that align with their service-oriented traditions and bring value to customers throughout their communities. They should also consider the connection to and impact on their brand. Buzz Points is a community-focused rewards and marketing platform that satisfies all of these requirements.

Community 70

Community Millennials Community Bank America 70

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots.

Google 72

Google Apple Industry Branding 72

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

After Retail Delivery had some mushy general sessions a few years ago, this is the second year in a row we have seen some provocative stuff on the main stage. So, isn’t retail delivery about consumer lending? Yseop made us ask if the need to tell prospects how to pronounce your name is perhaps a branding challenge.

Chicago 97

Chicago Retail Branch Design Training 97

Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Last year, we caved to the marketing pressures of modern business and put out a “ hot five ” technology blog post for 2014. From Retail malware: PCI-DSS is part of the problem, says retail security specialist Slava Gomzin – 07 Aug 2014 – Computing Feature ]. For the most part, it was pretty accurate.

Apple 50

Apple Retail Technology Trends 50

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it.

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Though it’s easy to see why other happenings in and around the country have overshadowed Brazil’s tech community, Rio de Janeiro’s tech scene is quickly earning notoriety. In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. Goldman Sachs reported on its Q1 earnings call that Marcus, since it launched, has originated $3 billion of new loans and taken in $9 billion of new retail deposits. They have a big incentive on their books to make sure that happens.

Fintech 183

Fintech blockchain Lending Digital Banking 183

CB Insights

JULY 24, 2018

The most potent symbol of the ascendance of e-commerce and downfall of physical retail is, of course, Amazon. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Learn how Walmart, Amazon, Sephora, Zara, and other retailers are using AI to reinvent the brick-and-mortar store. Why physical retail still matters. to $355.9B

Retail 49

Retail Online Branding New York 49

Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction Study from J.D. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand, said the J.D. Realize investment in technology is no longer optional: Regional and community banks may be underestimating the importance of a strong digital offering. The 2016 U.S.

Regional 28

Regional Mobile Millennials Study 28

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 31, 2014

But these are massive retail banks and I''d think that virtual holiday decorations would be in the branding budget. Observations taken between 6:30 AM and 8 AM, Eastern Time, on Wed, 24 Dec 2014, from a Florida IP address, running Mac Chrome browser with cookies cleared. I''m at a loss to explain the retreat.

Maine 23

Maine Cards Florida Capital 23

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

There’s a (slowly) growing push among retailers, brands and even politicians to make advertising campaigns as true and transparent as possible. We want to lend our voice and the support of the ModCloth community to this movement to stop the extreme and harmful photoshopping of women in advertisements.”.

social media 100

social media San Francisco Retail Branding 100

Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 23, 2015

. “Our Larky-powered rewards program will produce tangible savings for members and create stronger and longer-lasting relationships that improve the health of our community-based credit union,” said Lake Trust CU SVP for Brand, Strategy + Culture, Danielle Brehmer.

Michigan 12

Michigan Mobile Detroit Kentucky 12

Tomorrow's Transactions

AUGUST 30, 2016

Indeed, China gives us a very accurate glimpse at the #cardmaggeddon (the time at which cards will cease to dominate non-cash retail payments by volume) approaching in developed markets. Meanwhile, the banks aren’t doing too well out of the mobile payments revolution either. And don’t forget to check us out on Twitter #TTTU2016.

Big Data 34

Big Data Mobile Cards Fintech 34

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Uber does not publish user stats, but I saw a story that quoted 8 million user accounts (as of July 2014), without being specific as to whether that was only U.S. WeChat users can play games (and they apparently play a lot of them – accounting for $420 million in revenue in 2014), buy tickets and book and pay for taxi rides.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

As a result, consumers can ultimately lose confidence or faith in their favorite brand or retailer. WeGoLook has been focused for seven years on adding very specific types of Lookers into the community, ensuring a client can dispatch a Looker who can speak Mandarin or Spanish, install electronics, etc. Canada, Australia and U.K.,

Oklahoma 142

Oklahoma Oklahoma City Video Online 142

CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2019

Similar to a support engineer, the happiness engineer’s main responsibilities are to “help people use Automattic’s products,” “create detailed bug reports,” and “build a community of support by sharing knowledge and helping team members around the world.”. Retail Jedi. Brand Warrior. SVG Badass. Software Ninjaneer.

Innovation 78

Innovation Software Taxes Google 78

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Since 2014, Seacoast has been on a buying spree acquiring 14 banks. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. All of this while knocking out a stellar 1.35% ROA and leading industry, community, and philanthropic efforts everywhere.

Community 216

Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Brands attack the point-of-sale. Series A in 2013.

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Brands attack the point-of-sale. Series A in 2013.

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Brands attack the point-of-sale. Series A in 2013.

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Big food companies faced a variety of challenges in 2016, as smaller companies gained market share, consumers sought out healthy options, and direct-to-consumer distribution models — including Amazon’s new private-label food and beverage brands — moved onto the scene. Brands attack the point-of-sale. Series A in 2013.

Trends 31

Trends Branding blockchain Capital 31

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dream Exchange, which describes itself as the first minority-owned exchange in the world, intends to launch in 2021 and aims to create a more inclusive trading environment for smaller companies and empower minority communities. INITIAL COIN OFFERINGS. The problem, historically, has been that most of these reports go unread.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

It’s a big market today (which will be an exponentially bigger market tomorrow), one that innovators from all over technology, retail, payments and financial services are rushing to get in on at the ground floor, even though that ground floor itself is being built underneath them. So, where to look to understand what’s next?

Marketing 100

Marketing Millennials Google Mobile 100

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 15, 2016

as of YE 2014) we are only down 5% from the peak ( see inset below, note 1 ), but the trend will gain momentum as leases expire and revenues are squeezed by politicians (thank-you election year) “protecting” consumers and competition from non-banks ( probably in that order ). Visible reinforcement of the brand (i.e.,

Retail 12

Retail Branding ATM Taxes 12

CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2014: Bet on ideas that have unlimited upside. The customer is more empowered than ever, and as a retailer, that means you’re never safe from your competition. 2014: Bet on ideas that have unlimited upside. The only ways to differentiate is to narrow down to price and brand. 2016: Move fast and focus on outcomes.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Innovation Company Technology 78

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

BOUTIQUE GYMS & CLASSES ARE spreading AS MILLENNIALS SEEK CHOICE AND COMMUNITY. One 2014 survey found that 63% of people who attended boutique studio gyms did so because of the “community aspect formed by other people attending,” with another 47% attributing their attendance to the atmosphere. Source: Burst/Pexels.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Branding social media 78

CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Meanwhile, brands that were already virtual-first have seen dramatic increases in adoption during the crisis. Sales of the interactive at-home fitness brand Mirror doubled in the weeks following Covid-19’s arrival in the US. 3D printing.

Industry 101

Industry Technology Online Video 101