Picked this up from Jaffe Juice...Drew Neisser, CEO of Renegade Marketing wrote this piece in The Wise Marketer. In it he outlines the following trends:
1. Corporate honesty at all costs
2. Transparent customer satisfaction
3. Net Promoter Scores
4. Blog monitors
5. Niche market mining
6. Eco-everything
7. More user-generated content
8. No more lines
9. Daring to be digital
10. Innovation triumphs
A good list...especially for those seeking to be different.