Our community is fortunate to have so many brilliant, insightful entrepreneurs and creatives and so many of them have front row, ground level seats that allow them to see emerging trends before the so-called experts, industry leaders, etc. We wanted to create a space to connect members of our community where they could share these insights on trends and opportunities they are seeing.

Marie Ann Altuve

The biggest trend in the industry is creating video content. It’s evident with platforms like TikTok that more and more the younger demographic is using the app as its own form of search engine. Before going on to Google or YouTube, the younger demographic of TikTok are using the app to help them figure out the answers to their questions. If someone wants to learn how to cook a Penne Vodka Sauce, they can learn how to do so in under a minute on TikTok, sometimes under 15 seconds. If someone is looking for restaurants to check out in their city, it’s a quick TikTok search. Read more>>

Josh Cox

The furniture industry is an interesting and ever-evolving beast. In many ways it’s like the fashion industry, or even Hollywood, in that it’s often separated into several groups – involving both “professional critics” and the “regular people.” We’ve all seen those fashion shows where the clothes being modeled are eye-rollingly eccentric, or the film that scores a 95% from professional critics, but is as dull as a trip to the DMV. In the same way, different people ascribe to different philosophies on furniture design, and furniture trends tend to fall within two main categories – those that appeal to the professional design nerds, and those that appeal to regular people. Read more>>

Lacey Mitchell

Live selling has become such a huge trend! Software companies have been able to integrate social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram with stores to enable store owners to sell products directly to consumer from their phones. It provides the consumers the ability to add items to a cart and checkout directly from a livestream video. There were $300 billion in sales in China last year alone with projections of $600 billion by 2023. In the U.S. there were $11 billion in livestream sales for 2021, and it’s projected to nearly double by 2023. Obviously there is huge potential here and we will start to see it more industries as it continues to become popular! Read more>>

Milou Pietersz

Some of the biggest trends I’m seeing in our industry is video. While this may get repetitive, video is really the direction we’re heading and continue to head as an industry. It allows us to connect with customers on a more personal basis. On top of that, your personal brand will become more and more important. It is no question that having a personal brand is a non-negotiable in 2022, but I see people struggle to put themselves out there as a personal brand and on video. Read more>>

Yolanda Kennerly

Short form video to capture the attention of your audience. The faster we get our message out to the world the better results we can Ones I started using live video and video in general I was able to reach people from all over the world. My coaching business went international in a matter of months not years. Read more>>

Tatiana Alvarez

In the publishing industry today, we are seeing a big shift when it comes to traditional and indie publishing. Before you could really only reach book success if you went the traditional route, meaning you would need to query your book and hope and agent found you. Then you would hope that your agent could see your book. Now the indie publishing scene is taking the publishing world by storm. There are so many amazing avenues to get your book out in the world without going through a big publisher who typically don’t cater to BIPOC creators. Read more>>

Ellie Paget

We are discovering that more often people are pursuing homes that are turn key. Our clients are coming to us and acquiring homes at higher price points as well. Some other trends are the design component. As short term rental designers and acquisition experts, the trend in design is gearing more towards experiential luxury. Where everything flows in an order and has elements of surprise. Read more>>

Reona Harrison

I would say some of the biggest trends in my industry are creative styling , out-of-the box colors and top of the line photography and videography to showcase products or services. I have never seen the beauty industry as creative in whole as it is now. It’s honestly breathtaking to see the combinations that some artists come up with and I am happy to be apart of the movement. Read more>>

Alena Warfield

Travel has changed drastically in a post COVID-shut-down world. Mostly for the better, prospective client’s budgets are larger and their travel wish lists are more unique and adventurous. People want to see and do those bucket list items and they refuse to wait until it’s convenient or when they’re less busy. As a travel industry we are still experiencing the phenomena that is, pent up travel demand, people are ready to go, do and see, and even better, they’re ready to pay for it! Read more>>

shannel watkins

The biggest trend I have seen in the makeup industry is more natural makeup. Women are now starting to embrace more of their natural beauty and find ways to feel more comfortable in their skin. Read more>>