Lexury brands coming out of the red

"The auto industry has gradually recovered from the wipeout that occurred in 2009". While it is the sales of non-luxury items that stems the economy which are the best indicators of  economy growth. The idea of luxury items selling like hot cakes is an indicator that the non-lux marketing is also gaining speed.

Yahoo! Finance

Is there a secret shopping code at Costco?

This is no "holy grail" secret except to Costco and how they do their inventories. Every retailer has a system --red tags, slashes, Green dots, SKUs that all begin with 3,4....6 zeroes. UPCs that end in different digits (which usually coincides with shipment receive dates), all result in inventory coding which is not really a "secret".
You can ask although the answer(s) you get might be all over the map if you get one at all, but you may get a friendly manager or store owner that has a fun streak  who makes their store "codes" into a  treasure hunt or possibly certain codes go with in-store or online ONLY promotions.
Bottom line the coding is no giant secret, but well known to anyone that does any sort of inventory, warehousing, purchasing or merchandising.

Yahoo! Finance

Matthew Weiner”s MadMen is back for its final season. Things are bit up-side-down with Don Draper on the outs with the agency. It appears that Roger, Peggy and Pete are all adrift as well. It's time to call in superman, Bert, and bring Don back into the fold! With new faces like Neve Campbell joining the cast as a love interest for Don season 7 is sure to be must see TV event.

AMC's MadMen

Amazon’s Dash Wand

Amazon.com

 

reveals a new approach to shopping for the

 

tech savvy customer

 

 

A new way of shopping the online retailer Amazon.com, the “Dash Wand” promises to upgrade your shopping experience. Just by scanning a barcode or speaking the name of a product into the “Dash Wand”, consumers will have the contents of their vertical shopping cart at their within 24 hours.

 

Rag & Bone 10 years and growing

 

Rag & Bone the eclectic and modern fashion brand is on the road to becoming the next big American Brand. Key to build the Rag & Bone brand is balancing art and commerce.  

Childhood friends, David Neville and Marcus Wainwright founding partners of the fab British clothing house Rag & Bone’s is expanding their brand. Adding

The duo will beef-up their digital initiatives. Fans of the modern clothing brand will cheer as can plans to add to their fleet of 12 retail stores ventures into the Brooklyn, NY, Miami, FL and San Francisco, CA markets.

http://www.wwd.com/menswear-news/designer-luxury/david-neville-and-marcus-wainwright-talk-10-years-of-rag-bone-7628395?module=The Markets-Designer and Luxury-second

Digital marketing of YOU

 

 

Question: Should your Linked-In header say who you are?

How is a Digital Art Director viewed when listed as Consultant-e-mail Marketing on Linked-In?

Smart marketing insights do and should apply directly when marketing YOU.  It stands to reason that your effort to build/grow your online persona—is about hitting the mark. Being concise about what you do is the foundation in lining up the target. Being concise about what you do yields results and firmly grounds YOU in digital and social media marketing of yourself. Linked-In and the like is a channel set to provide a digital extension of YOU.  

Answer: Yes and No. This question is depended on how you want people to Link-in with you.

I myself believe that you want to position your profile in what/where you in turn want to go. In the aforementioned example I view it as too broad + just on first glance I have no idea if that person is a designer, a coder, a strategist or any of the many functions that fall under the email marketing umbrella.