NE Landmark Venture Forum to Feature John A. Lack Discussing Digital Media Trends: The Monetization Puzzle

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 17, 2011

John A. Lack, Chief Partner of FireMedia Partners and best known for creating MTV, Nickelodeon and Movie Channel will join the Landmark Venture Forum to discuss Digital Media Trends: The Monetization Puzzle on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Greenwich Hyatt Regency 12:00-3:30pm for Landmark Angels, a group of approximately 165 highly experience accredited investors seeking to provide equity capital to early and growth stage companies.

Consumers now expect to be able to access content anytime, anywhere, and from any device at their disposal from PCs and tablets to mobile phones and web-enabled television. After years of offering content for free under paid advertising models, and experiencing piracy, the NE Landmark Venture Forum will explore the best models, practices and trends of monetizing digital media and look at this subject from the point-of-view of a CEO, media executive, investor, recruiter, and advertising network/agency.

John A. Lack will be joined by Panel Chair: Jeff Miller, Miller Communications Group; Claude Sheer, CEO of Vault.com, Former President of Ziff-Davis, Miles Spencer, Vaux Le Ventures, entrepreneur and investor, Edward R. Koller, Founder and Managing Partner of The Howard-Sloan-Koller Group and Ken Margolis, Founder of Premium Network and Premium Channels.

The first Northeast Landmark Venture Forum of 2011, hosted by Landmark Angels and Landmark Capital (http://landmark.angelgroups.net/).

FireMedia Partners. An A team of award-winning strategists, designers, writers, producers and developers. Champions of media products across all platforms. From business strategy to product design. From consumer research to marketing campaigns. From TV to your mobile phone. In the business of pioneering new businesses, funding and recruiting the best and brightest to build them. The company has offices in New York and Miami.

For more information about FireMedia Partners please visit http://www.firemediapartners.com

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NPD Releases Shopping Activity Weekly Holiday Trends Report

Port Washington, NY (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

This weeks Shopping Activity Weekly Holiday Trends* report from leading market research provider The NPD Group, Inc.s shows an increase in the number of shoppers in Brick & Mortar stores.

However, while the report shows that shopping activity was up, the Brick & Mortar Shopping Conversion Rate shows a trend toward fewer purchases.

See Chart: Brick & Mortar Shopping Conversion Rate/Weeks Ending Oct.10th Oct. 31st

Just how good is Halloween for the retail business? asks Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst, The NPD Group, Inc., It turns out that not all Halloween shopping brings treats for retailersfinding just the right costume or decorations or candy make shopping more about searching and less about settling. And this week we can see that in the drop off in our shopping conversion rate as more people browse and dont make a purchase.

A look at the Online Share of Buying for the 4 weeks reported here remained in the 12 percent range.

See Chart: Online Share of Buying Visits/Weeks Ending Oct.10th Oct. 31st

*The Shopping Activity Weekly Holiday Trends is special report from The NPD Group, Inc.s Shopping Activity Service. The Shopper Activity Weekly Holiday Trends report will follow the weekly holiday shopping trends over the course of the 2011 holiday retail season and will be released weekly. Shopping Activity Services is a study fielded to 4,750 U.S. consumers daily. It captures brick and mortar shopping behavior and online purchase behavior in categories from Apparel to Entertainment to Groceries to Video Games.

About The NPD Group, Inc.

The NPD Group is the leading provider of reliable and comprehensive consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries. Today, more than 1,800 manufacturers, retailers, and service companies rely on NPD to help them drive critical business decisions at the global, national, and local market levels. NPD helps our clients to identify new business opportunities and guide product development, marketing, sales, merchandising, and other functions. Information is available for the following industry sectors: automotive, beauty, entertainment, fashion, food, home and office, sports, technology, toys, video games, and wireless. For more information, contact us, visit http://www.npd.com/, or follow us Twitter at twitter.com/marshalcohen and twitter.com/npdfashion. Become a fan of Marshal Cohen at http://www.facebook.com/npdmarshalcohen and watch more on NPDs YouTube channel.

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Gilfus Education Group Predicts Top Five Education Innovation Trends for 2010 and 2011

Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) October 12, 2010

The Gilfus Education Group announced its annual education industry predictions today. The Gilfus Education Group is led by Stephen Gilfus a founder of Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) and President and CEO of the group.

Gilfus annual education predictions foreshadow major concepts on the horizon for academic and administrative education applications in Higher Education.

"Over the past several years we have had the privilege to work closely with scores of colleges, universities, school districts, private schools, vendors to academic institutions and education investors. Institutions are challenged more than ever to deliver higher quality instruction in a more efficient and accountable manner. More and more educators are depending on technology to help them address their challenges" said Stephen Gilfus, President and CEO of the Gilfus Education Group. "As a founder of Blackboard Inc. I have also watched student expectations rise tremendously over the years with regard to the quality of teaching as well as to the quality of the technology and content that support learning."

As an independent consulting organization based in Washington, DC the Gilfus Education Group predicts the following top five trends in education innovation: