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Hip, sexy, talented, and, apparently, quite the comic interlocutor, Brooklyn-based designer of Navajo-inspired cloaks and all manner of 21st-Century Earth Mother wear, Lindsey Thornburg offered up her various opinions of the fashion Internets to The Contributing Editor. Yes, as an up-and-coming designer she loves it. Yes, by the same rationale, she hates it. But at the end of the day, it’s all about the Benjamins. “I love how you can really do some solid background checks on possible love intere

Shopaholics: Beware. Big Brother is watching you… or, in this case, Acxiom Corporation. The marketing technology company recently did an extensive study on shoppers, and the results are
so specific that it’s almost frightening. Well, for us big spenders, anyways.

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“Retailers, take note: Polyvore is a pretty genius marketing tool” –Fashionista.com Yeah, we all know that advertising, marketing, and publicity are key to gettings your garments stocked and sold. Usually, brands have to do the heavy lifting when it comes to things like this all by their lonesome. But today we read in WWD that big-time players French Connection, 1928.com, and Kiehl’s are adding a direct link to Polyvore on their online stores.

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I am a part-time blogger who works a demanding corporate job during the week. In order to not jeopardize my career, I have decided to blog anonymously at Deconstructed Life. This presents a variety of problems. The first problem I would like to discuss is marketing the blog. If you are an anonymous blogger, I would appreciate all comments so I can learn how you moved around certain hurdles.

I have several friends that started blogs and were able to create an instant following by reaching out to f

WouldYouRockThis.com is an innovative social network for designers to showcase their creativity, upload their sketches, share with friends and vote on whatthey like. UPLOAD YOUR SKETCHES TODAY. YOU MAY BE BETTER THAN YOU THINK.

by Ralinda Harvey

While leaders of successful companies and brands often have very different working styles and personalities, they do have one thing in common:

They involve themselves in every aspect of their company and/or brand.

At a very successful company I used to work for, which I’ll refer to as Andi James, the owner, Andi, would always go to trade shows with the sales reps. This may have seemed a little annoying to some of the sales reps, but he wasn’t trying to micro-manage or schmooze wit