Verve Marketing & Design: Positioning the Truly Exceptional for Generations to Come

Verve Marketing & Design is a boutique firm celebrating 30 years of helping businesses realize their vision and achieve growth. Recently, Diane E. Lemonides, President & Brand Strategist, completed an exercise she’s taken clients through many times: re-branding and re-focusing. Having worked with many clients across various industries over the years, Lemonides realized her consulting…

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Top 3 Trends that Wowed Visitors at the 2017 Architectural Digest Home and Design Show in NYC

Each spring, the world’s foremost tastemakers and trendsetters in luxury living spaces descend upon New York City’s Pier 92 for the annual Architectural Digest Home and Design Show. The space—almost 600,000 sq. ft.—is transformed into a breathtaking showcase of the newest innovations, trends, and styles for inside and outside the home. Some 400 brands display…

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Western Lullaby

At the age of 70, Lynn Estes Friess started writing children’s books and started her own publishing company. She was recently featured on The Balancing Act segment on the Today Show! Watch the segment below: What we did with this client: – Found an illustrator that was perfect for her story – Helped her set…

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10 Ways to Refuel

It’s a good time to stop and catch your breath.  Some of us are just coming out of winter and need to refill the gas tank.  It’s important for business people (especially small business owners) to take time to recharge.  It is good for you and your company. Here are some suggestions: 1)  Do Something…

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The Time of the Season

In nature, this is the time of the season to prepare the soil and get ready to plant.  The same is true for Business. Before we plant our garden, we must clear the area.  For plans to succeed we need to pull out what’s old and withered or broken. This is a good time to…

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Succession Planning From the Inside Out

Workforce.com says, “The only way to reduce the effect of lost leadership is through a strong succession planning program that identifies and fosters the next generation of leaders through mentoring, training and stretch assignments, so they are ready to take the helm when the time comes.” Research proves that there are very few companies who…

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The Slow Movement

As I was packing my kid’s lunches in wax paper bags, I was feeling good that the contents of all the “bags” in the lunch boxes were healthy, home-cooked food. Okay, except for the granola bar. (I do make my own power bars but they fly out of the kitchen so fast it’s hard to…

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Retail Federation News

Holiday Retail Sales Up 3.0 Percent to $579.8 Billion NEW YORK, January 15, 2013 – Solid consumer spending in the month of December helped retailers finish the year with a healthy holiday shopping season, however economic uncertainties sent a cautious consumer to the stores. According to the National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade…

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