Last Thursday Google sent us an email that our site had been classified as having "malware" on it. If you tried to visit us you undoubtedly experienced a Malware Warning in your web browser and thought, "I'm not going there." I wouldn't either and we shut it down immediately. Springing in to action our team discovered that our site was compromised and that the hosting company where our site resides had been infiltrated. Hundreds of sites were hit in exactly the same way by malware inserted. Continue reading...

I was so pleased when yesterday’s mail arrived with an envelope from a colleague who had just traveled to China two weeks ago. She sent me a copy of Cathay Pacific’s in-flight magazine called Discovery. She marked page 94 in this October issue, which begins an interview I gave to one of their writers a month or so back about trends for interiors. The text comes in both English and Chinese. My photo is there, along with four other images that support the trends I highlighted for them. Continue reading...

Today’s Weekend Journal section of The Wall Street Journal had an article on the front page called “Au Revoir, Armoire.” I had to smile when I saw it. I wrote an article for the blog you are reading today in December of 2004 with a similar title. “Goodbye Armoire” was my first post on December 26 after having debuted the Connecting The Dots blog on the 24th. In that post almost three years ago, I referenced a piece I had written for The Trend Curve™ even further back. It Continue reading...

Today is a day that I am celebrating with gusto! Today is the 20th anniversary of Marketing Directions, Inc., publishers of The Trend Curve™. I began the business with co-founder Steve Borsch 20 years ago purely as a consultancy. I still do work for client companies every year, but I keep a very short list for home furnishings consulting (Steve consults with clients on internet-as-a-platform exclusively). The majority of our energy for home décor is spent preparing trend forecasts Continue reading...

I feel quite proud that Marketing Directions, Inc., publishers of The Trend Curve, celebrated its 19th anniversary in April. It has been a fascinating 19 years to say the least. The Company was founded in 1987 when my husband and I were living in Chicago. Why I chose to start a new business when I was expecting my first child remains a mystery to me even to this day. I can still remember working against deadlines during my new baby’s nap time, hoping that she would stay quiet in her Continue reading...