Last Week’s My Posts and Activity

• Recommendations for a Paleo-Friendly Early Stage Food Start-up
• Training Summary This Week: Riding, Running Intervals, Biathlon and Bouldering

Links and Selected Social Stream Activity

Here is a collection of items  in CPG/Retail and publishing, two industries in which I work and other items I found interesting.

CPG/Retail

• Wal-Mart Banking on Smaller Formats to Drive U.S. Growth: http://j.mp/o1QCLH Comments by me here as well.
• 5 Retailers That Should Thrive in a Recession – no surprise Dollar Tree makes the list http:// bit.ly/oIde9n
• Retailers create shopping seasons: http://on.wsj.com/nZkvrc Seasons depends on your sector, too. We had “diet” season for one of my past companies
• Groupon, Foursquare, and the Future of Retail Loyalty Programs: http://bit.ly/nFzS2L via @keith_rng
• 4 Game-Changers for In-Store Mobile Shopping: http://j.mp/pqDJnZ
• What the Google-Motorola Deal Means In-Store and In Your Living Room: http://j.mp/qNPtKu Good article via @keith_rng

Publishing

• WRITING A BOOK – MAKING MONEY: http://j.mp/r4kIaY Good post if you are in the book writing biz (I am)

Marketing

• Case Study: Social Media Drives Message Development: http://j.mp/nkagSD Great case study.
• Shop your favorite catalogs with Google Catalogs: http://j.mp/rpMz09

Media

• MediaShift . HBO Go App Shakes Up the Streaming TV Scene | PBS: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/08/hbo-go-app-shakes-up-the-streaming-tv-scene229.html
• Fox Starts Its Web Pullback, and ABC Gets Ready to Follow: https://plus.google.com/113284824893630591242/posts/YjfpA8esp2c

Other

• My G+ Circle Strategy: https://plus.google.com/113284824893630591242/posts/1htRCVbGnMD
• Water news: Lake Powell and Mead up significantly from Snow runnoff (La Nina brought ample snow to us last winter). http://coyotegulch.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/lake-powell-news-the-record-utah-wyoming-and-colorado-snowpack-has-the-reservoir-sitting-at-76-of-capacity-despite-having-the-hydroelectric-turbines-running-at-full-bore/

This Week’s Post and Activity

I’ll be posting commentary on an recent Inc Magazine case study and posting marketing& distribution  ideas I recently learned from talking with vendors at a recent fair for gluten-free products.