TRENDCAST 2024 — The Second Five TRENDS Rattling The Marketplace As I shared in the posting of the first Five 2024 Trends, “Hold onto your seats!” These TRENDS are already rattling the marketplace in the final days of 2023! Here again are the 10 most significant trends that will impact 2024 with the Second Five highlighted in bold type… The…

TRENDCAST 2024 — The First Five TRENDS Rattling The Marketplace It’s a fact… we operate in a very fluid marketplace that is constantly evolving and changing. As we enter 2024… hold onto your seats… Leading into each year, I post a set of market changes that are evolving right in front of us that will impact the marketplace, how people…

EXPERIENCE TRENDCAST 2023 Update And 2024 Change Catalysts Usually at the end of the first quarter of each new calendar year, I like to track and see if any of the TRENDCAST predictions are surfacing as predicted. There are also some market dynamics that are driving market change agents future forward. While this blog post is longer than…

The Dynamics of House & Home Evolving into 2024 & 2025 Since starting EXPERIENCE now 20+ years ago, we have been very involved with house & home brands as well as real estate development and home builders. Many audience groups believe that house & home development and retail sales are in the depths of an economic depression. I cannot fault them…

Office Highrises Becoming Ghost Towns Demanding Creative Thinking I had a great session with a creative film director this past week. He is based out of Jersey City and my organic pet food retail client with stores in New Jersey was in the Zoom session too. The film director shared how his production process was all driven around…

The Alpha Generation is Upstaging Generation Z as The Marketplace Skips a Generation Again I am writing this from a coffee house in a college town that is off the mainstream traffic flow. The Gen Z new freshmen at the University of Georgia are flooding in as Greek Week starts and classes start the next week. Working off-site and out-of-town is partly due to…

The BGO of What’s Driving The Marketplace as MBAs Leave Center Stage There are now more folks securing an MBA degree than there are jobs to fill them. THANK GOD! Businesses may finally be waking up to reality. Even with the lay-offs and job cuts taking place among the tech corps and dot-com startups, there are still more openings for tech geeks…

Unions Are Coming Back Full Force! A mission call for those here in the United States of America! Go up to any person less than 35 years old you encounter while out grocery shopping or walking in the park and ask them a simple set of questions. Question #1… what is the AFL-CIO? Question #2… what…

What the heck Is happening to the American Workforce? I know that there will be a truckload of doubting Thomas out there who will challenge what I am about to share. The commute through the Atlanta interstates this morning was lighter than normal and it’s been that way over that last couple of months of my travel during the…