Increasingly, we take advantage of professional cleaners in order to keep up with household chores. Additionally, outsourcing of various cleaning tasks to competent domestic helpers allows busy people to free up quality time. As part of a relocation, new cleaning staff commonly has to be hired and trained. In these multicultural times, language barriers oftenmore »

nFluence: giving power back to consumers With click-through rates descending, marketers are faced with finding a smaller and smaller needle in their haystack of big data. They need help from consumers! nFluence provides a cross platform UX, available for iOS, Android and HTML-5, that enables connected consumers to volunteer information about themselves through a fun,more »

Ah, spring! What a wonderful time – the days are getting longer, the sun is shining (in some countries, I’ve heard) and the bees are tweeting “Let’s make #honey! “. Spring that is synonymous with new start and potting plants… for coolbrandz it’s time to say “So long and thanks for all the snow!” rebootmore »

E-v-e-r-y-body seems to be talking of Fifty Shades of Grey as of late. I resisted to even listening, until last Thursday. I went to Paris for an event and although everything in terms of travel arrangements was already organised, I took a train back much earlier than was planned because I felt sick like amore »

So last week we posted about Lift, the leading conference on digital innovation. Coming back from the event we can only stress how very enriching and inspiring Lift truly was! Always on a tight schedule we were able to attend on Friday only and thus missed out on The Venture Night organized by Alp ICT.more »

What would you say to having your Christmas tree delivered before the holidays and then having it taken away for you afterwards, without having to worry about shipment? This particularly tempting, innovative concept has been devised by Ecosapin. The ecological fir tree allows Swiss fans of Christmas traditions to hire a fir tree complete withmore »

The advertising agency Numéro10 is well known for their successful, often hilarious campaigns: from turbo sleep to Gatorade, the spirited team working with Gilles Aeby create exciting and sustainable campaigns with their own special flair. If you knock at the door of Numéro10, buzz is guaranteed! And quite often that is as precious as gold…more »

Earlier this year, I don’t remember exactly where or when, I read an article about the Catecar, a “Swiss Green High-Tech Urban Vehicle”. A pretty long description for something that looks about as big as a Smart car. But what caught my eye immediately was the most assuredly Swiss design of the little vehicle, which,more »

Feel like designing and making yourself a ring, or maybe some earrings, or a pendant? Well, now you can! Cédric Chevalley, designer & jewellery maker in Lausanne, is inviting anyone interested and wanting to design their own jewellery to a series of highly exclusive evening classes in his workshop! From firing to impression-taking, casting andmore »

Everywhere in the world women and mothers are victim to violence, abuse, human trafficking and health risks. That is why the extraordinary Swiss fund raising campaign „Jeder Rappen zählt“ (every penny counts) has collected the incredible sum of 6’295’846 Swiss Franks this year! A cool idea that deserves all of our attention! We say WELLmore »