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Rihanna's much-Instagrammed strip club dalliance with Meek Mill finds its sonic representation on "Pour It Up." It's basically Rihanna's version of "Bands a Make Her Dance" (sure enough, Mike Will Made It produced both songs), and proof positive of her ability to co-opt existing trends and transform them into her own new ones. R&B for Styrofoam cups and strip clubs? Yes, please.
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Posted by Jennifer Wise on April 30, 2014
Facebook, the social media giant that has already made a large dent in the mobile ad ecosystem, today showed it has no plans to stop the momentum: Welcome, Audience Network.
Before today, there were already several factors working in Facebook's favor: its reach among avid social users, its engaged and captive audience, and its trove of affinity data, which my colleague Nate Elliott talks more about in his blog post here.
After its Audience Network announcement today, Facebook is breaking the application of its tools and its data out of its own silo, and this could benefit several players:
Posted by Nate Elliott on April 30, 2014
It's been clear for a while now that the greatest value of social media to marketers won't come from placing ads on social sites — it'll come from using social data to improve the ads marketers place everywhere else. We call this idea the database of affinity, and we believe it could be the Holy Grail for more-effective brand marketing. For nearly a year, Google has helped marketers use the database of affinity to improve the targeting of their online display ads. And today Facebook has finally started to build the database of affinity that has always been its birthright, launching a mobile ad network.
This move is fantastic, if long overdue, news for marketers. It has the potential to improve the performance of all mobile advertising. And if Facebook grows its ad targeting business into other channels and works to better analyze and utilize its data (something it's lagged at in the past), it could revolutionize brand advertising.
For more analysis on what this means to the mobile ad ecosystem, read my colleague Jenny Wise' take here.
Posted by Luca Paderni on April 30, 2014
Just three weeks to go before our Forrester's Forum For Marketing Leaders in London kicks off on May 13-14. In addition to industry thought-leaders from William Hill PLC and Intesa Sanpaolo, I am excited we have been able to confirm Amy Nelson-Bennett, CEO and President of Molton Brown Global, the global luxury body & beauty brand based in London, as one of our keynote speakers.
Since joining Molton Brown, shortly after its purchase by the Kao Corporation, Amy has modernised the brand and business operations, particularly in the areas of eCommerce, eCRM, and other digital marketing programmes. She has also successfully leveraged resources across the Kao organisation to help accelerate Molton Brown's growth outside of the UK home market, and more recently has been working with the other Kao brands to better leverage digital assets and talent within the Kao organisation in EMEA and the Americas.
In the run-up to the Forum, I caught up with Amy and asked her these questions to uncover some of her messages for the marketing leaders attending our London event. Do join us on May 13-14 to hear Amy's full story!
Posted by Nate Elliott on April 29, 2014
Recently, Forrester studied more than 3 million user interactions with more than 2,500 brand posts on seven social networks and confirmed what marketers have long suspected: People don't engage with branded social content very often.
On six of the seven social networks, the brands we studied achieved an engagement rate of less than 0.1%. For every 1 million Facebook fans those brands had collected, each of their posts received only about 700 likes, comments, and shares. On Twitter, the ratio was about 300 interactions per 1 million followers.
But one social network absolutely blew the others away when it came to delivering engagement: Instagram. Our study found that top brands' Instagram posts generated a per-follower engagement rate of 4.21%. That means Instagram delivered these brands 58 times more engagement per follower than Facebook, and 120 times more engagement per follower than Twitter.
What does this higher engagement rate look like in practice? Last month, Red Bull posted a video of a unique snowboarding half-pipe on both Facebook and Instagram. A few days later, we noted that the brand's 43 million Facebook fans had liked the video just 2,600 times (a 0.006% likes-per-fan rate), while its 1.2 million Instagram followers had liked the video more than 36,000 times (a 3% likes-per-follower rate).
Posted by Anthony Mullen on April 23, 2014
Campaign marketing is increasingly seen as background music and 'tuned out'. No surprise really that in a world where all brands push 'play' without consulting consumers that the outcome is a cacophony. It's one that consumers increasingly want to tune out, and today they have the tools to do so. From their cultivation of banner blindness , use of browser plugins like Adblock, through to enlisting more-aggressive privacy settings and skipping adverts at 8x speed. They simply don't want your message pushed at them and are taking steps to control the signal-to-noise ratio of useful vs. irrelevant data. Marketing must respond with a new quality in the relationship or risk being ignored.
Posted by Luca Paderni on April 22, 2014
William Hill PLC, one of the world's leading betting and gaming companies and trusted UK high-street brand, has recently undergone a significant strategy review. The strategic changes came in response to the fact that more and more of its customers want to engage with the company via digital and increasingly also via mobile platforms — which at Forrester we refer to as the mobile mind shift.
In this new business context, William Hill now focuses on three main initiatives for expansion: 1) develop a wider product range, 2) encourage greater multichannel usage, and 3) increase internationalisation. To better understand how it is tackling these business priorities and, in particular, how the firm is driving multichannel usage by delivering visible value (and in context), we invited Kristof Fahy, William Hill's Chief Marketing Officer to deliver a keynote presentation at Forrester's Forum For Marketing Leaders in London coming up on May 13-14.
In the run-up to the Forum, Kristof was kind enough to answer a few questions to provide a sneak preview to the content from his speech. I hope you enjoy his responses as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing many of you in London!
Q. You've led marketing efforts at a wide variety of companies, from big and established brands like Orange and BlackBerry to challengers like Yahoo. Are there key things that all brands—regardless of size and industry—should be doing today to stay relevant and top of mind in our hyper-connected, multi-channel world?
Posted by Thomas Husson on April 21, 2014
The vast majority of Facebook and Twitter usage is coming from mobile devices, and both companies generate a significant proportion of their revenues via mobile ads (53% for Facebook and more than 70% for Twitter end Q4 2013).
Posted by Josh Bernoff on April 18, 2014
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan just announced that more than 10% of all consumer deposits are done through mobile devices. That's in Q1 2014, and it's up from 6% in Q1 2013. (What you see in this picture is my local Bank of America branch, which I never visit any more.)
I love this from the Wall Street Journal's MoneyBeat blog:
Banks that don't offer a full suite of mobile banking services may run the risk of alienating customers. All told, about 60% of smartphone or tablet users who switched banks in the fourth quarter said mobile banking was an important factor in the decision, up from 7% in the second quarter of 2010, according to data from New York-based consulting firm AlixPartners.
Here's what this means for you: Find a mobile moment where you can make your customer's life easier and you'll make money three ways. First, you'll make the customer happier with a better experience. Second, you'll keep him from switching to a competitor. And third, if you engineer it right, your own processes will be simpler and you'll save money, too. That's mobile mind shift thinking.
It's not just banking. Where are the mobile moments like this in your business?
Posted by Thomas Husson on April 17, 2014
At the beginning of the year in our yearly mobile predictions report, my colleague Julie Ask and I made the following call: "mobile will affect more than just your digital operations — it will transform your entire business. 2014 will be the year that companies increase investments to transform their businesses with mobile as a focal point." McDonald's France is a great example of such a trend.
In France, you can now order a Big Mac anytime, anywhere on your smartphone, tablet, or desktop and pick it up later at any of 1,200 McDonald's restaurants. But mobile ordering and in-store pick up are just the first steps of a broader and more ambitious strategy: differentiating McDonald's brand experience and powering a future relationship marketing platform by enabling direct behavioral customer insights. Although it started with a mobile ordering and payment app nationwide, McDonald's France aims to transform all points of customer engagement by building a platform to extend new services to loyal customers and evolving the entire organization.
Despite a less mature mobile ecosystem and lower mobile usage than in the US, McDonald's France was the first subsidiary of McDonald's to launch a mobile ordering offering at scale. Such an ordering service is only at pilot stage in the US. France is McDonald's second-biggest market after the United States, with €4.35 billion in turnover in 2012. Most other countries had piloted mobile payments so far. With more than 16 million members, McDonald's Japan mobile couponing and in-store contactless payment services is the only other mobile service for McDonald's (and the vast majority of brands) that has scaled massively, but it does not yet offer the same value.
Posted by Josh Bernoff on April 17, 2014
Farhad Manjoo says "The Future of Facebook May Not Say 'Facebook'" in the New York Times. Read the article, because it clearly points the direction for the future of Facebook (and of nearly everything else). From the article:
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Obama Nearly Stumbles Down The Stairs Coming Off Air Force One - Causing America to stumble in its approach all over the world, so somewhat apropos.
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1.Cut strips of green and blue foam 12" long by 1" wide.
2.Use hole punch to punch holes 1" apart down the center of strips. Save hole punchouts.
3.Push pencil through holes to create worm body. Refer to photo.
4.Glue lime green punchouts randomly onto blue strips and blue punchouts onto lime green strips with Aleene's® FunCraft™ Foam Glue. Refer to photo. Let dry.
5.Twist a chenille stem around the metal binding holding the pencil eraser to create the antennae. Glue small pompoms to the ends of chenille stems with Aleene's® Fast Grab Tacky Glue®. Let dry.
6.Glue a large pompom to the pencil eraser with Aleene's® Fast Grab Tacky Glue® to create the head. Glue googly eyes to the front of large pompoms and a medium pompom between the eyes to create the nose. Let dry for 30 minutes.
7.Optional: Cut a piece of ribbon and tie into a bow. Glue bow on top of pompom
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The Arasta Bazaar is like most other bazaars in Istanbul. It features a line of shops selling the trademark goods tourists come flocking for — carpets, jewellery, Turkish Delight candy — the things they will delightedly hand over to friends when they return home, proof that they visited this exotic, unfamiliar city.
There's one store in the bazaar that is markedly different from the rest, though, and when I saw the Canadian flag in the window, I knew I'd found it.
Jennifer's Hamam sits at number 135. Unlike the others, no bartering goes on. Turkish towels of all colours sit perfectly folded on shelves and the owner, Jennifer Gaudet, sounds more like a teacher than a salesperson, passionately educating shoppers about the history of her fabrics rather than frantically adjusting prices to make sales. The biggest difference of all is perhaps the most obvious: Jennifer is a woman — the only woman trader in the Arasta Bazaar. And she's Canadian.
The story of how she ended up in Turkey, owning a shop in the shadows of the famed Blue Mosque, begins in Thailand, where she lived for seven years after growing up in Edmonton. A teaching position lured her there but an entrepreneurial kick caused her to leave, as Thai laws made it virtually impossible for foreigners to open a business, something Jennifer wanted to do. Frustrated, she decided to think things over while vacationing in Turkey, a destination she knew virtually nothing about.
That vacation ended up being permanent after she fell in love with the place and, more importantly, its flexible business laws. She immediately bought and ran a successful café in Istanbul and was happy doing so, but when someone made her an offer to buy it, she accepted. She had another idea in mind. She wanted to sell Turkish towels.
As luck would have it, a rare spot opened up in the Arasta Bazaar, so she jumped on it. There was one problem, though. She had a shop and a desire to sell towels, but was missing a key ingredient: weavers. She didn't have any and she wasn't, under any circumstances, going to sell fabrics that weren't hand made. So, along with her business partner, she got in her car and started driving.
"One week on the road. Driving- morning, noon, night. Stopping, asking, driving. That's all we did for six days before we found the first weaver," she says. "I thought I was going to have a stroke because if I couldn't find a weaver, what in the world was I going to put in this shop?"
Eventually she managed to find 10 families who now create pieces for her — towels, robes, scarves — each one woven on an old style loom, each one made with organic cotton.
The response has been better than good. Customers flow in at a steady pace, high-end hotels are requesting Jennifer's towels and travel websites are full of testimonials from vacationers, raving about their experiences at the store. It seems the word has spread: Jennifer's Hamam is the shop to visit in Istanbul.
It's not quite a happy ending, though.
Jennifer is well aware the art of weaving won't exist for much longer thanks to younger generations who are simply uninterested in taking up the family business, something she was recently reminded of on a visit to the last silk weaver in the country.
"I found out that the head of the family is that last person in the family who still knows how to spin. His nephews, his daughters, his nieces — no one in the family wants to learn," she says. "1,500 years of knowledge base and information about the process of silk and it's coming down to one man. How can this be?"
I was struck by the fact that although she's a business owner who knows her product will soon cease to exist, Jennifer seems happy.
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Southwest of Somewhere: Whales in the Gulf, part 3
Whales take refuge in Marco waters and inspire an inquiry into the folklore, facts and futures of leviathans in the Gulf. A Southwest of Somewhere series
Off in the west, where the sun goes to rest, many miles from Marco's shallow shores, denizens of the deep grapple with the imagination.
Sebastian de Ocampo sailed around Cuba in 1509, and was the first European captain to enter the Gulf. For more than 100 years, the newly discovered Golfo de Nueva Espana was a forbidden zone to all but Spanish ships. On the uncharted waters where the wooden ships sailed, there was a caption on the nautical charts that simply warned: "Beyond this point there are dragons."
Little did the ancient mariners know; if they could have only glimpsed beneath their fragile vessels they would have believed what was inscribed on the charts.
Beyond Marco's emerald waters and the sandy shallows, the Gulf of Mexico reaches a depth of 12,000 feet in what is known as the Grand Canyon under the sea, or the Sigsbee Deep.
Living, thriving and calculating with surprising intelligence is a creature that lives in those waters and even today has only been filmed once, and only when a Japanese deep-sea submersible encountered a giant squid with eyes that measured 18 inches across and tentacles that reached out to 70 feet. Creatures perhaps even scarier than dragons — if the old mariners could have seen — and denizens from the crushing depths that are attacked daily by another leviathan with a legacy that dates back to Jonah.
When Owen Chase, first mate of the whaling ship Essex reported that his ship had been sunk by an enraged bull sperm whale, Herman Melville later penned the seafaring classic "Moby Dick." Owen described the big attacking whale as being over 85 feet and weighing in at an estimated 80 tons.
As we now know, the sperm whale has the largest brain on the planet and possibly the most sophisticated sonar and echolocation system of any whale, dolphin or porpoise. Marine scientists know that the sperm whale routinely attacks giant squid at depths of more than a mile deep, but the private battle of the deep-sea titans can rise to the surface, and on those rare occasions, humans have witnessed the truly extraordinary.
During a Soviet whaling expedition in 1965, Russian crewmembers rushed to the side of their ship to observe a huge and possibly elderly sperm whale rise to the surface embraced and ensnared by the gripping and thrashing tentacles of a giant squid. The whale was scarred extensively and showed signs of great age from wrinkles and fissures along the flanks. The Russians reported the whale to be over 20 meters — 60 feet — and the giant squid as big as a Moscow bus.
As the battle between the two deep-water giants ensued, it became obvious there was intelligence at work as the squid tried repeatedly to block the big whales breathing hole with searching tentacles. The whale however was not about to succumb and the surface battle continued for many minutes. With a final spouting and tremendous upheaval of bubbles and foam, the big bull whale and the squid submerged in a death lock. Several hours later, the Soviet log reported the sperm whale dead, floating and adrift, with the tentacles of the squid wrapped around its head, but the head of the squid was crushed inside the old whale's mouth.
In the autumn of 1966, the lighthouse crew at Danger Point, South Africa, watched from their lofty vantage point as a young right whale surfaced in turmoil. The little whale was clearly in trouble as the tentacles of a giant squid were ensnaring the juvenile mammal. As the lighthouse keepers watched, the little whale was repeatedly pulled under but struggled back to the surface for air. After more than an hour, and with a final dramatic spout from its blow hole, the whale lost the battle and became food for the creature that may have well been the Kraken of mythological folklore.
In the icy waters off Norway, the Brunswick, an auxiliary tanker registered to the Royal Norwegian Navy weighing 15,000 tons was repeatedly attacked by a giant squid. Crewmembers reported the squid on the surface running parallel to the ship before turning sharply at a right angle and wrapping its tentacles around the hull. The attacks were repeated several times as the creature seemed to be evaluating its prey. Finally the squid attacked the near the stern of the tanker and was fatally wounded as it became ensnared in the ship's propellers.
Many scientists believe the sperm whale uses an advanced form of sonar and echolocation to listen for the giant squid operating at tremendous depths. After calculating the depth, course and speed of the dangerous food source, the whale dives and continues the search with probing waves of sound. When the squid is discovered, the battle of the titans ensues.
The giant squid uses a jet propulsion system to move underwater and pumps and forces water through a siphon. The method of movement is very effective in the pursuit of fish — including sharks — other squid, and sometimes whales that are elderly or small.
When a sperm whale feels the need to feed, and locates the giant squid with sound waves, the attack begins. However, if the whale is too young or too old, and if the squid is too big, the attacker becomes the prey, and perhaps through the centuries, giant squid have learned that whales are vulnerable at the surface, and that small ships appear as whales from below. Perhaps the old sea stories of the Kraken — a giant sea monster with many arms — just might have been true.
The worldwide population of sperm whales today is still unknown and estimates range from 350,000 to one million. According to some reports, the combined sperm whale population consumes more jumbo and giant squid by weight per year, than all human consumption of fish combined.
For a computer generated "you tube" encounter, check out the Discovery Channel's: you tube — animal face off — sperm whale vs. giant squid.
Tom Williams' writing has been published in Amsco School Publications; he is a local sailboat captain and Marriott associate for 28 years. His debut action-adventure novel is now under contract and will be published by ArcheBooks in the upcoming year. Tom is available at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I have a few (4) AVs, which I wanted to repot, since 2 seems to have babies in there. One seems to think he is a tree, or at least that's my interpretation of it.
My question is what's the proper way of repotting, so I don't kill them. Do I use the same pots (which I don't think they've ever been out of. Do they like being rootbound, or should I try to find something to give them a little wiggle room?
From what Ive noticed, they seem to bloom once a year (if that) for me.
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Exterior paint color suggestions
Before I do a major landscaping remodel outside, I'd like to paint the trim on my house since it will need painting in about a year anyway. On the outside, it's a boring brick basement rancher and I'd like to liven it up a bit without making it obnoxious. The tan chicken-coop brick doesn't help. Particularly, I'd like to add some focus to the front door which, along with the landscaping, will make the home more welcoming.
Here's the original home. Both the grout and the roof are a grayish-putty color.
My first thought was an olive for the trim, but that looked too dark:
I lightened it up to a sage... too washed out?:
I tried taupe for the trim and both olive and eggplant for the door. Very dreary:
Any suggestions? I think the eggplant door has potential (although not quite the color in the mock-ups),
Would you be open to painting the brick, or limewashing it? It's the most limiting factor, along with the actual size of the windows. They are small, so they don't really add much to the curb appeal. Would replacing at least a few key windows be in the budget? At least add some additional trim to make them more prominent. Painting out the GARAGE DOORS to something darker and/or changing their style will help them not to shout so badly as well.
You're worrying about paint, and the problem is the bones. Put money into the bones before you do any greenery.
Hi Holly,
There is no money for a major renovation, not that the neighborhood home values would support it anyway. If money were no object, I'd be building a real front porch with a gable, at the least. :) Paint the brick? No, too much of a maintenance headache and ongoing major expense. Lime washing I will have to research; Google is not being very helpful tonight.
Additional trim is an interesting idea but I can't think of where? Not fake shutters. (shudder) I wonder if giving it a long line or two would give it a Prairie feel or just chop it in half? I will have to try Photoshopping that in.
In a couple of versions I did I made the garage doors darker. I guess I felt like they made them more prominent, which I don't want, but I don't have a lot of elements to work with here and they certainly aren't going to disappear.
The windows are not that small from the inside; the rooms are small. Despite the wall-o-brick, the home is under 1300 square feet, plus part basement.
I think a more front-facing view shows the house proportions better. The trees in front are gone now.
There is a plant in front of the porch that is sort of blue gray sagey. In your pictures I like that color with the brick. Try your photoshopping skills eyedropping the color of that plant and play with the depth of the color. (my first instinct is some value of sw hamburg gray) I see taupe/offwhite/sage/black in that order but other orders would work. Maybe an off-black door like sw triton black and larger black iron light fixtures. If you use the sage color on the house, balance 3-5 blue-gray-sagey plants in the landscape and add white-pink-eggplant colors for pop. I'm no good at photoshop, sorry.
Thanks for the responses. I have done a lot of looking at other houses! Red brick rules around here. I can find a few tan homes but only one house (in my neighborhood) with the same mixed color split-face brick. They use a dark brown and have more elements to work with but it's not a good look. Better than mine, I think. Ironically, a few months ago they asked me if they could try my leftover paint to paint their house cream.
Kacy, I will try your ideas and post them back here. I do also want to change the light fixtures. I think you are picking up on the silvery artemesia? Maybe gray will work. It seems odd to me, but the grout is gray. I had already planned to include mostly pink and purple blooms in the landscape, plus some dark purple foliage like sambucus elderberry to add some weight, so maybe we are on the same page.
I would never have thought of painting the door black. I will try that, too.
Just painting the door black is a big difference! Here's a version lightening up the trim to be more cool white than warm cream. I rather like this version although it is a bit dull. Generally I think the white will read as gray from a distance anyway.
And here's with taupe soffits and eaves and the lighter trim:
The silvery-sage color really doesn't work I don't think; neither did too much taupe.
What about adding paneling under the squat upper windows to the same vertical height of the bottom line of the triple window to the other side of the door? That would create a visual illusion of bigger windows and if you paint thet rim the same light color as the garage, there will be some balance.
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