Chinese now spend more on international travel than tourists from any other country. The U.S. travel industry is slowly learning how to attract them
We Talk a Big Game But Don’t Follow Through When It Comes to Saving For Retirement
Like the diet that always starts “tomorrow,” Americans like to say they’re going to get their finances in shape, but then fail to follow through on those good intentions. After the financial crisis gave a lot of us a harsh reality check about the inadequacy of our saving and investing plans, we promised to do better. We’re still …
Four Traits of Great Employees
What makes a great employee? The American Management Association had an interesting take on that recently.
The 5 Big Mistakes That Led to Ron Johnson’s Ouster at JC Penney
In the fall of 2011, Ron Johnson was appointed not just as CEO of JC Penney, but as the savior responsible for breathing new life into one of the dowdiest dinosaurs in American retail. Seventeen months—and many, many mistakes—later, he’s out of a job. What happened?
Get Customers to Advocate for You
When deciding whether to give you their business, prospective customers trust one source of information above all others: their peers. To sell more, you need to get your current customers marketing and selling — advocating — for you.
In New Ad, McDonald’s Compares Loving Big Macs with Mental Illness
How’s this for an “edgy” new ad: In a poster displayed on a subway, a woman is shown bowing her head and holding a hand over her face in shame. Next to her are the words “You’re Not Alone. Millions of people love the Big Mac.”
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day Is Today, April 9 – And More Freebies Coming
Everybody loves ice cream. And everybody loves freebies. And free ice cream? That’s almost too good to be true.
Murdoch’s News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox Off the Air in Aereo Dispute
News Corp.’s flagship Fox network might cease broadcasting over the U.S. public airwaves if the company’s dispute with upstart challenger Aereo isn’t resolved, a senior company official warned Monday. News Corp. COO Chase Carey …
The Trouble Lurking on Walmart’s Empty Shelves
And according to recent reports, Walmart has cut employee hours so deeply that it doesn’t have enough associates on hand to get stuff from back-of-the-store staging areas to the shelves.
A Year Later, Instagram Hasn’t Made a Dime. Was it Worth $1 Billion?
Last April Facebook agreed to buy the quickly growing photo-sharing network Instagram for a cool $1 billion. A year later, the jury’s still out on whether Instagram will one day reap huge profits.
Was Thatcherism Good (or Bad) for the Economy?
Margaret Thatcher was known as the woman who, from 1979 to 1990, brought austerity and — at least for part of her tenure — economic growth to a stagflation-riddled Britain. She’s also known as a heedless free-market …