Vinyl record sales in the United States cracked $1 billion in 2025, the first time that has happened since the year 2000. Sales of "dumbphones" (basic mobile devices without internet access or app ecosystems) rose 25 percent last year. Arts and crafts retailer Michaels reported a 136 percent sales surge.…

Picture this. Sometime in the mid-1990s, your family is on vacation. Maybe it is in Orlando. Maybe it is in New York City or Las Vegas. Maybe it is a big shopping mall somewhere in the middle of the country that has turned a Tuesday into a destination. The line…

On April 17, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Design, and Figma's stock dropped 7 percent within hours. That reaction from Wall Street tells you something important. This is not another incremental AI feature update. This is a tool that the market immediately recognized as a genuine shift in who can create…

Somewhere around the last week of April, something shifts along the Jersey Shore. The Route 37 bridge starts carrying more out-of-state plates. The parking lots at Island Beach State Park fill up earlier. The boardwalk shops in Seaside start propping their doors open. In Brick and Toms River, the hardware…

Here is an exercise we like to do in an initial conversation with a potential new client. We ask them to Google their own business name. Not to search for their industry or their services, just to type in the exact name of their business and look at what comes…

If you grew up in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you remember exactly what it felt like to want one. Not just any jacket. A Starter jacket. Satin shell, embroidered team logo on the chest, that unmistakable silver star stitched on the back. It did not matter whether you…

Ask almost any small business owner about their social media, and you will hear some version of the same story. They post when they have time. They try to stay consistent, but life gets in the way. Some posts get a handful of likes, most disappear into the feed without…

Summer has always been an anchor at the Jersey Shore. Memorial Day through Labor Day is when the energy tends to peak. Staffing expands, hours stretch longer, and the parking lots stay full. Then September arrives, and the Shore settles into its own quieter rhythm. Some businesses pull back their…