Latest Profiles by The Cool Hunter - for more checkout www.thecoolhunter.net http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:31:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk Latest Profiles by The Cool Hunter - for more checkout www.thecoolhunter.net http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1283&Itemid= Sydney Morning Herald (http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=37334 sy=smh source=smh.com.au%2Flifestyle%2F) Online Video Series - Top Line Living Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:32:51 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1258&Itemid= Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:09:12 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1246&Itemid= Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:18:26 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1247&Itemid= Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:30:45 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=843&Itemid= Cool Hunter wins BEST CULTURE BLOG THANK YOU to all who voted for us and made The Cool Hunter the Best Culture Blog at the world’s largest weblog competition, 2007 Weblog Awards The final results were announced on November 8, 2007, at the BlogWorld New Media Expo in Las Vegas. This is particularly sweet because we came second last year. We love to beat ourselves! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:02:01 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1208&Itemid= Virgin Blue Magazine - Jan 2007 Chris Sheedy meets the NEOs, a breed who are reinventing our world. When entrepreneur Bill Tikos, a literary agent, web publisher and brand owner, feels he needs a new challenge, he packs his laptop, BlackBerry and iPod and takes off to another country, usually for about three months. “I don’t want to establish myself in one city for too long, so I stay for three months, maximum, in each city,” the 35-year-old says. “If you have a laptop you can work anywhere in the world. I get a lot out of meeting a new group of interesting people. It motivates me.” Tikos has been jetting between New York, London and Sydney to meet publishers about turning his website, www.thecoolhunter.net, into a news-stand magazine. He’s in discussions with producers keen to turn the Coolhunter brand into a TV series and with editors about publishing works from his list of authors (including this writer). Welcome to the life of the NEO, an ever-changing, always-evolving world of individualism, planned success, advanced technology, premium products and high spending. The breed was identified by Ross Honeywill and Verity Byth, authors of NEO Power: how the new economic order is changing the ways we live, work and play (Scribe Publications, $32.95) and founders of the Centre for Customer Strategy and the NEO Group. NEO stands for ‘new economic order’, and is the name of a breed of people that Honeywill and Byth claim are “charting a new course and reinventing the world”. Tired of often-meaningless social groupings, such as Generation X, Generation Y and Baby Boomers, Honeywill and Byth surveyed half a million people, examining over 2,000 social and behavioural characteristics, to discover what drives us as human beings and why we behave the way we do. The two major groupings that came out of the study were NEOs and Traditionals. “NEOs are highly individualistic,” Honeywill says. “They are very much in control, architects of their own lives. They believe success is a matter of planning and not a matter of luck. They’re motivated and attracted by things that are beautiful, by design and by desire, as opposed to Traditionals who are motivated by price, deal and discount.” NEOs are also very demanding, Byth adds. “They are likely, because of their curiosity of the world, to move through a range of interests in their lifetime rather than sticking to one. If you are a Traditional – somebody who thinks the world should look the same most of the time – you would find a NEO less stable but more intense. A NEO’s intensity can be difficult for some people.” Tikos began his career in the marketing department of a record company. After just two years as a full-time employee he went out on his own to manage bands, but soon a discussion with a friend would cause another change in career direction. “My friend had an idea for a book, but he couldn’t get any agents to show interest and he had no idea how the publishing industry worked,” he says. “So I said, ‘Let me have a go.’ I basically pretended I was a literary agent, found the right people to speak to in publishing companies and soon there was a bidding war for... Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:24:58 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=273&Itemid= This week's " Messengers of Cool (Trendspotting). How new digital networks help hipsters around the globe hunt for the next big thing" (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1118344,00.html)We were featured, along with Josh Spear (http://www.joshspear.com), a 21 yr old cool hunter from Boulder. _______________________________________________________________________ How new digital networks help hipsters around the globe hunt for the next big thing. Around 100 times a day, a message lands in Reinier Evers' In box, bearing the promise of something new and cool. Sometimes the sender is describing a product that's suddenly generating local buzz, like lipstick-size aromatherapy tubes in New Zealand or cone-shaped pizza in Italy. Other times it's an innovative retail concept, like customized-candy shops in Australia or American T-shirt "delis" where designs are personalized like sandwiches. The correspondence comes in from trendspotters everywhere--a coffee shop in Istanbul or a library in Taipei--all part of Evers' network of more than 7,000 volunteers, most of whom have never met--and will never meet--their boss. "I call this effect the global brain," says Evers, 35. "People all over are having this international conversation about what's next, what's trendy. Our role is to serve as aggregator and to provide context." Evers and his Amsterdam-based staff share their discoveries via trendwatching.com, a free online digest of the freshest, most interesting trends that's tracked by in-the-know marketers, retailers, designers and consumers worldwide. Evers' Springspotters network, one of several global trend-tracking alliances, has more than doubled in size since last year, when there were just 2,500 volunteers. Today the spotters, ages 17 to 70, send information from more than 70 countries. They do it partly for the small rewards, like key-ring cameras, that they can earn but mostly for the street cred that comes with ID-ing a trend that appears in Evers' bible of cool. The concept of cool hunting—tracking urban trends—dates back more than a decade, but the rules of the game are rapidly changing. Over the past three years, an explosion of blogs, podcasts, websites and newsletters has pried cool hunting from the grip of professional marketers, shifting it to the text-message-happy fingers of amateur trend trackers. Some independent sites focus on broad trends and generational shifts in consumer habits. Others home in on specific styles, foods, brands and gadgets popular among trendsetters. jcreport.com, for instance, focuses on fashion, gizmodo.com on gadgetry and needled.com on tattooing trends. The best hubs for travel buzz: superfuture.com and gridskipper.com. Yet while networks are flourishing, some cool hunters prefer to do the digging themselves. Roaming the streets of Copenhagen last June, Josh Spear, 21, repeatedly hit the jackpot. Looking for quirky, undiscovered gems, the cool-hunting blogger from Boulder, Colo., stumbled upon a renovated downtown hotel whose 61 rooms had been customized by 21 street artists from around the world. He also found—and blogged about on his site, joshspear.com—a chic shop called WoodWood that featured a wall of limited-edition sneakers. He says too many of today's cool hunters simply sift through blog posts, collecting other people's finds rather than discovering new trends on their own. That said, he concedes that he... Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:56:20 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=290&Itemid= The Cool Hunter started its origins as a syndicated column (in 2004) which was featured in numerous magazines and newspapers around the world, including, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, United Kingdom, US, Dubai, Italy and Venezuela to name a few. The syndicated column reached over 5 million readers per week across the globe and expanding weekly. Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:43:47 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1209&Itemid= Who's covering The Cool Hunter online? - Check out over 8000+ links from blogs/sites covering us (http://www.technorati.com/blogs/thecoolhunter.net?reactions) Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:57:57 +0100