About
I run a marketing services organization known as the kimbro agency. You can find it on the web at www.thekimbroagency.com. Most recently I launched a monthly newsletter called Trendcites (rhymes with bites) and recently converted it back to TrendSights (which it originally was but someone else momentarily got the domain name…it is now in my possession) which covers trends in the home dec, fashion, craft, gift and stationery, housewares, back to school, home office and office supply markets catering to individuals or organizations such as manufacturers or retailers who need to be 12-24 months out on trend information. Because there is so much territory to cover I thought touching on some of this in a blog would be helpful in keeping everyone up to date and at the same time letting people get to know me better and my approach to trends. You can read back in my reports from nearly 3 years ago on this blog and see how those things are popular and in the market as we speak: 3 years later….
For more information, go to www.trendsights.com to check out a sample of an industry newsletter the kimbro agency published (in 2006) or contact me directly at kim@trendsights.com for how we can help support your growth initiatives. I’m finding we are being sought out more for customized trend reports, those relating specifically to your product category, than general trend reports.
Thank you for taking the time to visit. While many changes have taken place over the course of the last four years, the kimbro agency and our trend reporting service, TrendSights, is also undergoing a process of change, beginning with the change to our original name. Others will be showing up, albeit slowly, and may be ones you’ll be happy with, maybe not. Time will tell.
Information is readily available all over the web for anyone with initiative to find it today. We are being encouraged by those who think they know to give information away at an alarming rate (for nothing) and it has created an economy of TMI, that is one of too much information. I have followed very closely the developments of Mainstream Media vs New Media, and see that New Media is winning out at least in terms of innovation, however, Mainstream Media still has the budget. Perhaps there can be a melding of forces in the not so distant future to capitalize on the nimbleness and ingenuity of smaller firms and the bigger budgets of larger organizations.
In the meantime, I realize everyone has their pet trend forecasting service but I urge you to try a new one. Times have changed, radically so, and so should how you keep ahead of the market.
I look forward to chatting with you soon.
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Hi Scott. Thanks for leaving your information. I like the cork plug-in. I’ve been a huge fan of cork and have hawked it myself as a material for manufacturers to use for environmental reasons. Yours is a clever usage of it too.
Hi Kim,
Thanks for your kind words and encouragment. I’m not sure how my blog will turn out but if I can atleast share information with others I will have achieved something. I will definitly look forward to feedback of any kind.
Thanks also for the link to your site, it’s great to read other peoples views! I look forward to keeping up with your posts aswell.
All the Best, Alex A.
Alex, if it’s anything like how you have been posting at On the Runway, it will be very interesting to keep up with. See you in the blogosphere.
Hi, Kim!
Now, now, I went to Alex A.’s blog and found out you have a website. Darling! I wish I knew it sooner, so now I’ve got a lot of reading to do.
Kindest regards,
Autre, thank you for stopping by. The world in here gets more interesting everyday. And I have some reading to do myself on your essay over at the NY Times On the Runway blog. I’ll have to take a couple of days off from my blog to do it I’m sure, but am looking very forward to it.
Thanks again.
That essay’s getting me into a lot of trouble. Hey, I can dish it out, but I can also take it – but not the stupidity. Thanks for your support, though.
I’m trying to figure out how to translate fretwork into Slovenian. I doubt we have a word. Maybe I’ll invent it and then run it by some of my linguist friends.
Best, Marko
You are really something, Autre/Marko. You know we all love it, regardless.
Interesting re fretwork in Slovenian. So fretwork does exist in Slovenia? I mean that type of technique. Because I still don’t think I have an actual country invention of it, unless its origin is Asian.
I don’t know if it exists – I bet it does. Just not sure who produces it. Will report.
Best,
I finally found it! This should have dawned on me sooner. Gothic fretwork! In Slovenian: “krogovičje” [kro-go-vich-ye].
Best,
Thank you so very much Autre-Marko. If you have an image, I’ll post it because I already love the sound of it–Gothic fretwork in a romance language. It must be beautiful.