PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. And in certain categories, such as books, auto parts and electronics, Amazon’s share of spend is decimating that of retail stores.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Today, few travelers would go to an agent to book a flight – they’d just do it themselves online. Buying a cheap secondhand car may seem like a smart compromise between having no wheels and buying a fancy, brand-new vehicle. The company was built on the belief that, if Amazon could do it for books, why couldn’t they do it for food?

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Your Full Potential

MAY 31, 2016

Let’s talk about innovation. You may be innovators yourselves. Or you may work for an innovative organization. There is one irrefutable law of innovation that if enacted, will take you and your organizations to the very heights of innovation. Make innovation part of your brand promise. Here we go….

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2019

Miller clarified that she has no problem with predicting the future for commercial purposes – she herself has been known to write horoscope-influenced gift guides for brands like Tory Burch – but she takes the work seriously and actually tries to focus her expertise into those commercial works, something she does not feel Amazon has done.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Online book stores.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

And before there was Chase, there was LevelUp, the branded mobile payments platform that used those same cube-shaped readers to enable QR code payments at the physical POS for consumers with the LevelUp app. Brands franchisees who are now being asked to get on board the Grubhub delivery platform. In February of 2018, Yum!

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. Amazon sold one, and only one, product: books.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

As more brands begin to catch on to the growing popularity of the pay-as-you-go lifestyle of many consumers — who, at an increasing rate, are enjoying the convenience that comes with putting off the decision to own — the subscription commerce landscape is impacting new industries in some very unique ways. The risk is too great,” he noted.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

A big part of the trend is driven by younger consumers — that is, the interest on the part of millennials in using recycled clothing, and caution on the part of the luxury brands in terms of what they can do online. That potential IPO speaks to the appeal and growth of resale commerce. It also said 44 million U.S.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Star Wars’ nearly five-decade legacy among fans isn’t entirely due to the innovations Lucas brought to the screen – like the Millennium Falcon, lightsabers and Stormtroopers, memorable though they are. billion in video games, $2 billion in book sales and $1.3 Between 1977 and 1978, Star Wars sold $100 million worth of toys.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Through Expedia, shoppers will be able to pay off hotel bookings of at least a $200 value, though no minimum was outlined for concert or event tickets from Eventbrite.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As of the end of 2018, for instance, Google research found that 36 percent of international travelers “would likely pay more for services if a travel brand tailored its information and trip experiences to personal preferences or past behavior.” Not only that, but 57 percent of “U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As of the end of 2018, for instance, Google research found that 36 percent of international travelers “would likely pay more for services if a travel brand tailored its information and trip experiences to personal preferences or past behavior.” Not only that, but 57 percent of “U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Consumers today can use Alexa to order food, book an Uber and do their banking – and they do.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. In fact, according to our recent study, they come in dead last.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

No one wants to see someone break the Guinness Book of World Records for continuous hiccups, which lasted 68 years. Other favorites over the last several years have included “too big innovate,” “too big to pivot,” “too big to keep up with the modern world,” and “too big to ever attract Millennials.”. Big Banks Breakout Weak.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

That offering, called Certify Enterprise Travel, was meant complement Certify’s existing Certify Travel booking solution, the company said. According to the latest PYMNTS Commerce Connected Playbook , for example, millennials can comprise 20 percent of travelers around the world depending on the type of travel involved.

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Tech and Finance

JUNE 14, 2018

In the past I have written about design thinking, how to avoid bank PR-speak and whether banking and innovation belong in the same sentence. Survey respondents think that in-house innovation centres (51%), accelerator/ incubator programs (48%), and creating closed bank hubs (48%) are the best way to innovate. – 28.3%

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Your Full Potential

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Keep an eye out for my upcoming book, What’s In It For Me? If you complete the Contact form, I’ll send you a free copy of the new book once it’s published. We’ll have a chat; you get the book – even if you decide not to pursue ABSURD! The Driving Force Behind Making Decisions and Better Leadership. A Leadership Thought-System.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

This innovation ushered in a sea change for consumers, content producers and content distributors. Millennials loved it even more: Only 57 percent reported watching primetime TV live that year, opting instead to watch prerecorded and/or streaming video or to play video games. From Time Shifting to Place Shifting.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

The intent of the regulation is to level the playing field for innovators by offering consumers an expanded number of point solutions that are different than what’s offered now by their existing bank. In the book, he describes going into the store and giving a salesperson his measurements. Television programming is being unbundled.

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Your Full Potential

MARCH 2, 2016

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, What’s In It For Me? If you’re not willing to take the time to create your VALUE proposition (whether you’re self-employed or a leader in someone else’s organization,” close this book now. “We change people’s lives.” Talk about a great WIIFM (What’s In It For Me?)

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

It is an innovator with tech (e.g., And Partners CEO John Janclaes helped put Kony on the market map in mid-size shops, even keynoting Kony’s conference with a leadership book in tow. The workplace a millennial will most confuse with Silicon Valley – Live Oak Bank in North Carolina. The bank’s strategy is laser-focused.

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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. Rewards and loyalty schemes are way down on the list.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Digitally driven consumers need more than just an emailed survey or online flyer for meaningful engagement with brands. PYMNTS: When merchants’ email marketing campaigns are being ignored by their loyalty rewards customers, what are some innovative ways they can add value to their emails and engage consumers? two days in the U.S.,

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MyBankTracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Electric vehicles are at the forefront of the innovative automotive industry and Telsa is the brand leading that charge. It’s the world’s leading brand in the industry on electric vehicles. 4 Investments Millennials Should Be Considering. Company Overview. Every investor has a different approach to research.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

This post will dive into innovation across beauty and grooming, focusing on the following areas: Startup investment trends. Colorescience , a chemical-free skin care brand, ranked third with a $15M investment. Within branded cosmetics, startups focused on skincare have attracted the most deals. Corporate activity and patents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Yet, that’s the claim being made by Scott Galloway — serial entrepreneur and adjunct faculty member at the Stern School of Business who wrote a book , participated in numerous TV interviews and composed a 7,000-word article in Esquire saying just that. About 50 percent of items sold on Amazon now are from sellers just like him.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 6, 2017

Millennial Personal Finance: 63 Fintech Startups Targeting Millennials. Brands Cutting Out Middlemen: The Direct-to-Consumer Startup Landscape in Three Graphs. Millennial Personal Finance: 63 Fintech Startups Targeting Millennials. Here are the consumer goods companies unbundling P&G’s brand portfolio.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

But where the worry beads might need to come back out of the drawer is because of this next chart, which shows that the customer base that Walmart has locked and loaded today isn’t that digital millennial native shopper who needs to be the Walmart customer tomorrow. We all know the rest of the story.

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