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• Trend is a pattern of group behavior that lasts for a long period of time
• Trend is a conceptualized idea that has the prospect of providing or having a continuing influence for a longer period due to its increasing and sustained presence and effect or even demand among its consumers in the case of a product.
• fad is often used interchangeably with the word trend.
• Trend is a new item or a practice that stabilizes and transforms into a habit, a lifestyle, or an enduring product.
• significant social trend is best understood as a series of related events that emanates from a range of causes, manifests a continuity over a period, and redounds to significant social, cultural, economic, and political changes.
• Give me the three example trends• The rise of OFWs

  • Changing roles of women

  • Religious habits or traditions
• A person who starts a trend is called trendsetter
• Trendspotting is wider than cool hunting and refers more generally to the study of trends and the way they develop and affect society.
• Cool Hunting is a neologism coined in the early 1990s referring to a new kind of marketing professionals who make observations and predictions in changes of new or existing “cool” cultural fads and trends
• Cool hunting is also referred to as “trend spotting” and is a subset of trend analysis
• Trend Analysis is a statistical technique that tries to determine future

  movements of a given variable by analyzing historical trends
• Duration of time - The lifespan of products or ideas that become trends do not disappear quickly.Trends have long staying power and enjoy a long period of popularity.
• Acceptability - Trends are popularly accepted by many industries and people.
• Cultural Basis - A trend is rooted on the people's cultural traditions, beliefs, and values. A trend persists and continues because people have seen it as part of a society's culture.
• Transitory Increase or decrease

  A trend shows a transitory increase or decrease of a particular idea, event or phenomenon.
• Cause -A trend has a starting point which can be an idea, technology, event, or person. Portable audio players were popularized when Walkman was introduced in the 1980s, allowing people to listen to recorded music (cassette tapes) through headphones or earphones.
• Consequence - A trend makes considerable influence or impact. Social networking has become an encompassing trend that tends to influence behaviors of online users.
• what are the five types of trends
• Microtrend. These are the little things that happen all around us. Trends thatare so common we get used to it
• Macrotrend. - These are the trends that can endure for surprisingly a long time.It is also the trends that affect the society.
• Megatrend. - These are the trends that can stay healthy for decades or last for 10 years.
• Gigatrend. - It is a megatrend that goes on for half a century or more. These are the trends that are so general, they affect most areas of human life.
• Nano trend - These are the trends that are yet to be expected. It can be analternative trend that exists in trends.
• pattern is a design, shape, form, or configuration that emerges from

  repetitious appearance of lines, curves, and behavior.
• Documentation means being able to record your observations which you consider related to any trend.
• Archive or Memory means being able to easily retrieve any documentation you have kept.
• Analysis is the stage where examination and combination happen.
• Presentation is representing your findings for easy understanding as a way of analysis.