Makeup App Reveals (Potential) Global Cosmetics Trends Valuable for Retailers

A popular ModiFace iPhone App called “Makeup” is coming through with some valuable statistics that anyone in the cosmetics retail biz will want to see. The virtual mobile makeover app spit out data from more…

Emerging Payments – Are Customers Really Going to Pay for Things with Smartphones?

The rise of payment-enabled smartphones, which can replace cash, credit cards and debit cards via technologies such as near field communications (NFC), is a fascinating new option for consumers. However, before smartphone payment systems can…

6 Things I Learned @eTail that we Marketers can Do Today (+ a Bonus!)

There’s this weird thing about conferences. You often leave them not knowing what to do with all the information you just semi-retained. You’ve got notepads (physical or digital) full of scribblings about what other very…

An Issue You May Not WANT to Face but Probably Should…

In my daily headline scanning, which includes email newsletters from places like the NYTimes, mediabistro.com, Mobile Commerce Daily, ROI Report, Mashable, and oh, about a dozen others I’m surely forgetting, one caught my eye. It…

Infographic Alert: A Pinterest Quickie-Factoid-Mashup for Your Friday Afternoon

Alright, ALRIGHT already Pinterest. We get it. You’re like, a big deal. That doesn’t mean we don’t love proving it to you when we get funky graphics to do it. We have a quickie from…