Dutch coffee company Douwe Egbert recently introduced a vending machine with a twist. It does not accept money or credit cards, instead it accepts Facial Expressions. The company placed their coffee dispenser in the middle of South Africa’s O.R. Tambo International Airport, a place they suspected would be full of sleepy customers. The machine, designed to…
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A new member driven marketing organization focused on the “total market experience” has announced its plans to launch at the first Total Market Industry Conference in September. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Cross Cultural Marketing and Communications Association (CCMCA) will provide information on marketing awareness, training, education and certification. Not only are marketing techniques and…
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A recent study, performed by Dr. Julie Holliday Wayne and associates at Wake Forest University School of Business, has shown that a spouse’s feelings towards the other spouses’ job greatly effects the other spouse’s work productivity. The question that the researchers were most interested in was, “If the spouse develops attitude similarities or differences toward…
Read MoreBeating Bullying with Body Language
School has already started for many students and with so many pre-teen and teenage kids already in or starting school, anti bullying campaigns have begun. No one likes to be bullied and in our socially aware and interactive society, bullying is becoming taboo. Anti-bullying campaigns across the nation are hard at work trying to keep…
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