By: Walter Gordy | Strategic planning One of the secrets of building a business legacy and lifestyle that will endure is developing the ability to distinguish a long-term business trend from a short-term effort. Trends represent a pattern of occurrences and events over an extended period of time. Fads can be characterized as short term trend or whim that is often evidenced by the hot item or issue of the present. Long-term business can be leveraged to build up a successful business. However, fads tend to rely of short term efforts that rely heavily on immediate results and thus serve a less reliable business model upon which to build a viable enterprise. read more
By: Killeen Gonzalez | Marketing Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Pogs, Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Rubik's Cubes, pinball, Green Slime, Disco, Hootenannies, Ouija Boards, Davy Crockett Coonskin Caps, baseball cards, Garbage Pail Kids, Slinky, roller derbies, victory gardens, swallowing live goldfish at colleges, hanging out at blind pigs and flagpole sitting. What do all of these things have in common? They were either trends or fads of decades present or gone by. read more
By: Jane Kenton | Fashion Following fads and trends can be a great deal of fun but if you want to stay ahead of the curve then consider adding incredible items like t-shirts and jeans to your wardrobe. read more
By: Ursula K Rose | Remodeling Remodeling Trends - come and go. Sometimes, though, what looks great in a design magazine just does not translate so well into a real life home. Here are a few examples of such unfortunate fads and some realistic alternatives. The Stadium Kitchen read more
By: Chris Peterson | Weight Loss It seems that a number of celebrities today offer their own weight loss programs. The diet systems are attractive because we see these various in shape celebrities and we want to have bodies just like them. The celebrities are also highly likable, so we have a predisposition to be accepting of their weight loss products. read more
By: Marie Hilland | Fashion Every season brings with it a raft of new trends, fashions and fads for us all to enjoy experimenting with! In these cash strapped times, however, savvy shoppers are thinking carefully before buying into the newest looks, and working out how best to keep up with the latest essentials, without spending a fortune! read more
By: Orchid Box1 | Beauty The choice of nail polish and manicures will say something about the fashion style and personality of the person wearing it. Here are five of the most popular nail polish trends that we saw in autumn and winter 2010 to help you keep up to date in 2011. read more
By: Kimberlee Jaynes | Interior design According to Benjamin Moore's Color Pulse 2009, there are four main color trends that will be dominating our surroundings next year and beyond. read more
By: Gulraiz23 | Fashion Being in Fashion is the First Priority of everyone in the 21st century. However keeping pace with fast changing Fashion is not so easy, especially when it comes to the matter of Clothes. The year 2011 has also brought many Fashion styles .2011 is the year of Return of 70’s fashion and look. In Pakistan Fashion is very much followed especially in Young Generation of Male and Female. read more
By: Debbie Lee Evans | Painting There is no escaping color. It is powerful and influences every aspect of our life. Embrace it and bring it into your home to enhance your family's lives. Our weather can be challenging in the winter when it is dark and grey and adding color to our homes can lift our spirits, inspire, and help us get threw the dark days. Color can be added with paint, accessories, and even plumbing products with chromotherapy. read more
By: jasicathomas | Finance Urban fashion trends have been around for the better part of a decade, and they don't show any signs of going anywhere to soon. Instead, they seem to simply evolve. read more
By: Amy Mitchell | Product Reviews Trends have a way of appearing in all facets of our life, they affect our fashion, our art, our homes, even the celebrities we admire. It has a way of sneaking into our everyday life. And it has definitely snuck in through our choices in dinnerware. Just imagine your mother's dishes. Do they look anything like the ones you dream of? Probably not, because those dishes are no longer popular. But what is? read more
By: Andrew Beene | Business Clothes for dogs are becoming popular nowadays as dog shows have showcased their bravado for attention of not just their pet owners but also of others. read more
By: DietDoc | Health & Fitness Anyone who has lost weight or taken a nutrition class at their local community college can claim to be a dietary expert and create a weight loss blog. Some are incredibly well educated with fancy professional letters after their names and they see a niche in the ever expanding demand for diet and weight loss. New fad diets come out every year. The cookie diet, the 17 days diet, the read more
By: Shahi Nazir | Furniture A bathtub is one of the most sensitive and specific functions of a bathroom, so it is usually easier to choose a bath first and leave the rest of the decisions for the design of the project. Since it has not established any solid border style it can be somewhat overwhelming to review the huge selection available on the market today. Here is a checklist that could help reduce their options. read more