14 Brilliant Minimalist Ads It’s not difficult to love minimalist ads, but to create one requires a brilliant idea. Most successful minimalist ads depend a lot on iconic brands, items, places and people. Just an image (or traces) of it would trigger a whole chain of associations and no more than that is enough to grab the attention of consumers. What advertisers need to do is to capture that one image without overdoing it. Now, that’s the difficult part isn’t it? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. fitvibe: We really know how to make you work out 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Credits to: Trendhunter, Ads of The World, Creative Bits, thedesigner.co.za
Luxury Villa Amanzi, Thailand by Original Vision Studio | Luxury Furniture, Property, Travel & Interior Design Luxury Villa Amanzi, Thailand by Original Vision Studio The Villa Amanzi by Architect firm Original Vision Studio is a stunning modern vacation residence located in the exclusive Cape Sol on the West coast of Phuket, Thailand. Villa Amanzi is a stunning six bedroom residence with a 15m infinity pool and breathtaking views over the Andaman Sea. This luxury villa enjoys a spectacular headland location along Kamala’s exclusive Millionaires Mile and captures cool gentle breezes all year round with uninterrupted sea views from every vantage point, in one of the most breathtaking locations Phuket has to offer. The contemporary design features ultra modern architecture and interiors that combine to provide guests with the optimal environment to relax and unwind in unspoilt luxury. About Richard Barker Love Interior Design & Exotic Travel? May 19, 2011 | Phuket Thailand Travel | View comments Contemporary design at Nest and Cave House, Croatia Luxury wellness retreat Aro Ha opens in New Zealand
What is a Mom’s Work Worth? [infographic] | Education Insights Imagine you were perusing the classifieds and came across an ad that looked something like this: NOW HIRINGSelf-motivated, caring, hard-working, borderline psychotic individual to take on the following roles on a volunteer basis: facilities manager, psychologist, CEO, cook, day care teacher, housekeeper, computer operator, van driver, janitor and laundry machine operator. The ideal candidate will stay on site indefinitely and should dedicate no fewer than 96 hours a week to their responsibilities (on call the remaining 78 hours). Benefits include warm fuzzy feelings and the occasional macaroni necklace. You’d be hard pressed as an employer to find anyone crazy enough to take the job, and yet millions of women across the world are working their Mommy magic day in and day out. Updated for 2012 – What is a stay-at-home mom really worth? We’ve updated all of the numbers for 2012. New for 2012 – What about working Moms? Information Source: Salary.com’s 11th annual Mom survey
50 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics You Should Be Using | Bootstrapping Small Business Marketing 50 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics You Should Be Using Friday, 13 February 2009 17:44 If you’ve been following this website for a while, you’ve seen our two articles on Guerrilla Marketing Tactics You Should Be Using. There was 24, and then another 26. For the sake of keeping things organized, we’ve put together all 50 in this one post. The Calendar -There are not end of ideas in the calendar for things you can do to find customers and make an impact. Presentation Rules In the past I’ve given some tips for handling meetings effectively, covering topics like: - How not to let your meeting go down a rat hole; - Dealing with the elephant in the room; - Dealing with skeletons in your closet; - How to make meetings discussions, not “pitches” - A tale of two pitches (I eventually invested in the first company that pitched) Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation. This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides 1. If you look at Diagram A above you’ll see that the presenters are sitting at the opposite end of the table from where the screen is. If you look at Diagram B you’ll see that the people you’re presenting to can look you in the eyes and glance up at the screen. 2. I’ve lately been attending meetings with our shareholders (called LPs or limited partners). 3. 4. 5. 6.
Muziekstudio vermomd als houtstapel Hot Froot Deel op Facebook Volgende Froot Muziekstudio vermomd als houtstapel Caberetier Hans Liberg wilde graag een muziekstudio waar hij zich kan terugtrekken om aan nieuwe stukken te werken. meer Architectuur Volgende froot Het Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: Like it, Pin it, Sell It - Why Pinterest Matters for Your Business Pinterest. Is this a term that makes you scratch your head, or does it describe your latest obsession? I can definitely say around our office, it’s everyone’s latest obsession, and it looks like we’re not alone. In December, 2011, Hitwise listed Pinterest as one of the Web’s Top 10 and Time listed it as a Top 5 social network of 2011. comScore also reports that as of November, 2011, Pinterest had almost 5 million users. And, according to Biz Report, new statistics, recently released by social sharing tools firm Shareaholic, reveal that Pinterest is pushing up the rankings to drive almost as much referral traffic (3.6%) as Twitter (3.61%) and Google (3.62%). In fact, Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than YouTube (1.05%), Reddit (0.83%) and Google+ (0.22%)! Just check out this inforgraphic shared by the folks at Monetate: So what is Pinterest? Pinterest is a social photo sharing pinboard and online community. 1. 2. 3. © 2012, VR Marketing Blog. About the Author
Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke. Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably waaaay over a kid's head. Just watch--it's excellent, and very well illustrated: The video begins with a basic question: How is it that the first world has an oversupply of food, while 1 in 7 in the world go malnourished? That can have disastrous effects. The solutions will involve everyone, the world over. Still hungry for more infographics videos? [Via Infosthetics]
Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People Want to know how to persuade people online and get what you want? The power of influence is usually all that separates the successful from everyone else. These are some tactics, discovered through psychological research, that you have probably not yet heard about, but have the potential to increase your persuasive abilities. I’m not going to cover reciprocity, scarcity or social proof and all those widely known persuasion principles. Related: How Nike’s Making Persuasive Product Pages 1. The best way to persuade audiences that are not inclined to agree with you, is to talk fast. Want to boost persuasive power? Don Moore from Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Behavioral Decision Research has published research showing that confidence even trumps past accuracy in earning the trust of others. We prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we are willing to forgive a poor track record. People naturally associate confidence with expertise. 2. Light swearing, that is. Image credit
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Why Leaders Dont Learn from Success The Idea in Brief Virtually all leaders recognize the need to learn from failures, but amazingly few try to understand the true causes of their firms’ successes, which helps explain why great companies fall into decline. The reality is, success can breed failure by hindering learning at both individual and organizational levels, in three interrelated ways: 1. When we succeed, we tend to give too much credit to our talents and our model or strategy and too little to external factors and luck. 2. 3. Recognizing that these impediments exist is a big first step in overcoming them. The annals of business history are full of tales of companies that once dominated their industries but fell into decline. In this article we argue that success can breed failure by hindering learning at both the individual and the organizational level. The first is the inclination to make what psychologists call fundamental attribution errors. Lessons from Ducati