By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published March 13, 2009 Until recently, being green was the best way for companies to demonstrate a sense of social responsibility, and for consumers to feel good about their purchases. Healthy food, hybrid cars, energy efficiency […]
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Strategist Mark Penn discusses how unprepared the US is for the newly unemployed masses
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published March 2, 2009 With all the concern about America’s manufacturing sector losing jobs, it is easy to miss that the newest phenomenon is the wholesale loss of professional jobs, the very jobs that fueled America’s […]
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published February 19, 2009 Presidents and politicians no longer talk about simply creating jobs — now they are creating “green jobs.” Just in the stimulus bill alone, there are said to be four million new green […]
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published February 3, 2009 With all the stimulus ready to go into more broadband, bigger tax cuts and infrastructure, some of America’s most expensive societal investments are also on the decline and in need of a […]
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published January 8, 2009 With so much attention on psychological marketing these days — finding new ways to tap into people’s heads — perhaps the single most neglected trend out there is the move towards more […]
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published December 24, 2008 Just as more people in China are working for firms that are privately owned, more workers in America are waking up to find themselves working for companies that are — at least […]
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published December 19, 2008 For most of this century, con men and hucksters preyed on the uneducated and the elderly who couldn’t read the fine print. Some still are. But now we learn that the real […]
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By MARK PENN with E. KINNEY ZALESNE From The Wall Street Journal Microtrends Column Published December 10, 2008 As the financial crisis swept across the nation these past few months, one of the first microtrend groups to emerge is the New Mattress Stuffers — people who have lost their trust […]
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