Sure it can be hard to keep a secret, but our computer passwords are secrets worth keeping.
When I used to audit companies back in the day, I was always surprised to see how many people kept their passwords posted at their desks or taped inside their top drawers or written on index cards that were tucked underneath their desk blotters.
I always thought these folks were…
Time magazine reported on something called The Lipstick Index last week.
The term was coined over a decade ago by Leonard Lauder, then-chairman of Estee Lauder. He used The Lipstick Index to refer to the fact that when times get tough, shoppers may stop buying non-essentials but they’ll still spend money on little luxuries. Like lipstick.
During the last recession in 2001, for example, the overall economy declined…
We’ve often heard about retailers and brands offering celebrities money to wear their clothes and use their products. In fact, we’ve also heard the scuttlebutt when these same brand ambassadors are caught out in public sipping a rival brand’s beverage or wearing a rival brand’s pair of jeans.
But now, this celebrity branding has taken an interesting new twist.
It seems that the teen chain Abercrombie &…
She was Hollywood royalty and a glamour icon both on and off the screen. And now we mourn Elizabeth Taylor, the lovely lady with the legendary lavender eyes.
As pointed out in the LA Times tribute to her extraordinary life, Elizabeth Taylor loved to eat, she loved men and she loved jewels. But perhaps her greatest achievement was her tireless work related to AIDS. Back in 1985,…
Have you ever slipped on a dress in a changing room while you were out shopping and immediately known, even before looking at yourself in a mirror, that you had found The One?
It’s amazing how sometimes the energy of a dress just matches your energy perfectly. How it hugs your body like a glove. How it hits in all the right places. How it makes…
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