Hierarchy. It’s a word that you’ve undoubtedly heard, but have you ever taken a moment to stop and think about what it actually is, how it’s achieved and why it’s important? From a creative standpoint, hierarchy is one of the core elements of design, which basically means the order of information importance. Often times, we in...
You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars every time you want a story in your local media. Use good old-fashioned public relations and let the media tell your story for free. Look at the buzz created a couple of weeks ago by James O. Poags Jewellers in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. Poag’s has a rental program, “Something...
Ingredients Kosher salt 3 cups dried elbow macaroni ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 cup cubed rotisserie chicken 1 cup diced English cucumber (about 1/3 cucumber) 1 cup halved cherry tomatoes ½ cup chopped pitted Nicoise olives ½ cup chopped roasted red peppers (about 1 whole) ½ cup ¼-inch diced hard salami (about 4 ounces) ¼ cup diced red onion (about ½ small) ¼...
Remember Google Glass? After that prototype came and went without much fanfare, Google is working on its next big idea: skip the glass, and implant the computer right into your eye. Google has recently patented this new technology, which would take their current work from Google Glass and smart contact lenses and turn them into what...
With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, it just wouldn’t be right not to write about such an important holiday, especially for jewelers – heck, for U.S. retailers as a whole. Mother’s Day, according to eMarketer, is the third largest retail holiday in the United States; it is said that over 80% of Americans celebrate Mother’s...
I’m not talking about your physical desktop, though it’s important to keep that organized, too. Take a look at your computer desktop. Is it cluttered with files you were going to just “put on the desktop for now?” I’ve seen way too many desktops with icons completely covering the background – it always makes me shudder....
"You have got to try these. The first time I made them, I thought of how much money I could save by making my own!" Ingredients 1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C) 2 eggs, room temperature 1/3 cup margarine, melted 4 1/2 cups bread flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup white sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast 1 cup brown sugar,...
Unless you employ an ad-blocker, you’re probably used to seeing pre-roll ads on YouTube™ videos. You can normally skip the longer spots if they’re not really your thing, but a new format announced April 26th, which Google calls “Bumper” ads, will bypass that reflex by keeping things short. Like, six seconds short. They’ll launch in May...
Nordstrom is a company that does it right. And yet, this king of all service retailers is laying off 400 people - 140 of which are from their tech staff. Imagine what the headline would read if it weren’t Nordstrom. Oh, it would be this. Despite the recent and sad news from one of my favorite retailers,...
With the ever increasing array of alternatives to traditional TV, cord cutting has become a very popular topic of conversation. Are people really cutting the cord, though, and getting rid of their providers? Based on recent data from the Pew Research Center the answer is yes. Approximately 24% of Americans do not subscribe to cable or...