A Better Course

But the group faces a possible slowdown in the luxury-goods market and currency fluctuations. Growth rates in the industry over the calendar year may fall from 18 per cent in 2005/6 to between 8 percent and 12 percent, according to HSBC.

(tags: luxury burberry markets ft)

RelevantMind mines internet forums in niche categories (eg, road bikes, cooking, snowboarding) for customer conversations. Aaron Mann, the CEO, said that the service enables vendors to see which products get the most attention, for better or for worse.

(tags: feedback nytimes marketing analytics)

Aspiring writers are using Craigslist as a writing workshop where they test their stabs at social satire on the more than 30m visitors that the site draws each month. Their ads ostensibly seek a soul mate; what they’re really looking for is an audience.

(tags: nytimes craigslist online web2.0 writing)

what else but Mr Becker’s blog could President Bush have been referring to when he said that the Nobelist was “being honoured for broadening the understanding of economics and social science…”

(tags: garybecker blogging ft)

“The reason mailing out packets, offering discounts isn’t always effective is because the inactive accounts may feel they are being sold to. There may be good reasons why the inactive accounts are inactive”. Why not ask for their thoughts?

(tags: marketing businessweek)