Austin Ad Agency Lands Pizza Hut Account

From this Statesman article.

Austin ad agency GSD&M has landed a major new account.
The firm learned Tuesday that it had won Pizza Hut’s business when members of the pizza chain’s marketing team showed up at GSD&M headquarters on West Sixth Street on a bus loaded with champagne and, of course, pizza.

Pizza Hut spent $227 million on its marketing and advertising efforts last year, according to AdWeek.

Economic Indicator Links

These sites are where you need to go to find the unemployment rate, consumer price index (CPI), number of housing starts, what people are spending, retail sales, and so on.

Well, you can get deeper. Read the agency name below to get an idea of what to expect there (labor statistics have such data as income, employment, etc...)

Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Bureau of Economic Research's Economic Indicators (Awesome)
U.S. Census Bureau Economic Indicators (Also Awesome)
Fed Data on Money Flow and Supply 

You can also use our handy database Economagic. But the above links will work just fine for most projects.

Mathematics and Logic for Economics

Here's where those books on formal mathematics in economics are (official heading is economics mathematical).

Covers the use of symbols, rules of formal logic, sets, differential equations, theorems, variables and more. Check out one and curl up with it in front of the fire!

Stock Reports

Many people read investment reports before investing in a stock or mutual fund.

We have two of the best in Valueline and Standard and Poor's. They cover stocks and mutual funds as well as other investments. If you are using Standard and Poor's to search for stocks, enter the stock and then choose stock reports on the left side of the screen. An investment report should appear:

Effective Business Communication

Here's some more subject headings to help out the management majors and salespeople. Heck, any one could benefit from this material.

Here are cool books on doing superior business presentations.

Also: business communication is a good place to look. You will find information about streamlining your writing, communicating core ideas, and persuading an audience.

08-09 Financial Crisis Subject Headings

Read up on the  2008 – 2009 crisis and figure out the housing bubble, derivatives, sovereign debt, personal debt, TARP and more. 

Our subject headings:

the best one: US Financial Crises

Global Financial Crisis

Financial Crises United States History

Austin Influencers on Social Media

If you're a charismatic, good-looking person who wants to blog or make videos about your clothes or  the restaurants you go to you might consider becoming an influencer.

Companies pay you to promote their products on social media but it looks all authentic and street and stuff because you portray yourself as just this cool person rapping about your life. Except your life has product placements.

Read all about it here – some people actually do this for a living.