From businesses intensify pitch for 'savviest generation ever' by dave carpenter © 2012 the associated press as americans' unprecedented prosperity filters down to the next generation, attracting teens' business has become a holy grail for marketers. "it's a very influential market," says selina gruber, president of children's market research inc. in new york. "marketers never really paid that much attention to kids, but now they do because it's becoming their bread and butter." what is the connection between paragraph 1 and paragraph 2? paragraph 1 introduces a topic, and paragraph 2 describes it. paragraph 1 gives the first step in a process, and paragraph 2 gives the next step. paragraph 1 introduces an idea, and paragraph 2 gives details to support it. paragraph 1 lists a cause, and paragraph 2 gives its effects.