A seven-year-old kid goes to the dentist to have a tooth removed and feels woozy as the anaesthetic gradually wears off. Dad records his kid’s verbal ramblings for two minutes. Video ends up on YouTube in January 2009. It goes viral. Just over a year later the Dad has a thriving internet business off the [...]
July 25, 2010
Categories: Advertising, Attitudes . Tags: dentist visit, money from viral . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
“We watched various brands and companies within our industry and elsewhere struggle, sometimes fail, to achieve their objective, which is always to get closer to the customer, to know more, to create a relationship” – Mike Boush, Vice President of E-Business, Discover Financial Services The market’s major card brands issuers search all the time new [...]
July 25, 2010
Categories: Attitudes, Social media, Social networking . Tags: social media banking, banking social media, banking web 2.0 . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: 1 Comment
The rental market in Paris has shifted. Last year, when the euro was strong, tourism was down. The short-term rental market suffered. Today, the Greenback has about 20% more buying power in this part of the world than it did a year ago. Tourism is up sharply, and short-term rentals are back in demand. Meantime, [...]
July 24, 2010
Categories: Attitudes, Great places for holidays or investments, Investments, Real Estate Investments, real estate . . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
Am atasat aici filmele postate pe Youtube de redactia revistei Biz ce ilustreaza foarte bine ceea ce inseamna o redactie mutata la mall. Iar mai jos este Social Media Framework-ul conceput impreuna cu Gabriela Enescu pentru revista Biz, urmand sa-l implementam in lunile urmatoare.
July 8, 2010
Categories: Advertising, Attitudes, blogging . Tags: Biz 48h, campanie social media revista biz, revista biz, social media framework . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
“Caribbelgium is what this island ought to be called,” writes Correspondent Paul Lewis, continuing his New Year’s Caribbean cruising. “Half-French and half-Dutch, St. Martin or Sint Maarten has no internal frontiers, and its two linguistic communities mix freely, united by a common ability to speak English, run duty-free shops, and extract money from visiting cruise-ship [...]
July 5, 2010
Categories: Attitudes, Investments . Tags: the French side . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
The following questions, which we receive regularly, are often preceded by, “I feel a little foolish asking, but I’m just not sure…” Don’t be shy. It never hurts to clarify. For example: 1. “If I move overseas, could I ever return home?” Yes, of course. Living overseas, even full-time, even as a legal resident of [...]
July 4, 2010
Categories: Attitudes, Investments, Real Estate Investments, real estate . Tags: questions about retiring overseas, retire overseas, retiring overseas . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: 1 Comment
“Falling markets over the past 18-plus months have created crisis buy opportunities,” writes resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon, “for personal use and for investment. New Year 2010 is a year for action. I’ll present specific opportunities starting next week. “Meantime…invest in a piece of real estate in another country? How do you [...]
July 3, 2010
Categories: Attitudes, Real Estate Investments, real estate . Tags: real estate opportunities, the best real estate opportunities, X the best real estate opportunities 2010 . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: 3 Comments
When my boss at the time came to me to explain that the U.S. publishing company where I’d been working for 13 years was interested in setting up a new base in Ireland and to ask if I’d be interested in making the move to open that office for him, I jumped at the chance. [...]
July 3, 2010
Categories: Attitudes . Tags: live overseas . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: 1 Comment
Reason #1 Not To Retire Overseas: You have young children. Bring them with you! The advantages to raising children abroad are many, from a second (or even third) language to a second passport. Children raised overseas are generally self-confident, open-minded, and resourceful. They learn to make friends easily and to adjust quickly to change. If [...]
July 2, 2010
Categories: Attitudes, Great places for holidays or investments . Tags: top reasons for not retire overseas . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
Stop reading. Well…not right this minute. But, after you’ve done your research and your googling, you have to stop reading about living, retiring, and investing overseas…and get on a plane to investigate the possibilities firsthand. Nothing substitutes for feet on the ground. You’ve got to walk the beaches, the pavements, and the hillsides of whatever [...]
July 2, 2010
Categories: Attitudes . Tags: plane, stop reading . Author: Greenfield Staff . Comments: Leave a Comment
