Groupon As The Emperors Tailor?
You remember the story … The Emperors New Clothes a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that are invisible to those either unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” The tale has a modern twist. Restaurant owners are being told by Groupon that their online couponing model...
Read MoreBlack, Green and Cyber – The Colors of Online Spending
In a look at the colors of the online spending rainbow, ComScore reported the holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 43 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. To date, more than $23.82 billion has been spent online, which is a 12 percent increase versus the same time period for 2009. The week ending December 12 surpassed $5.31 billion in spending, an increase of 12 percent in comparison to the same week in 2009. Monday, December 13, known as “Green...
Read MoreYear In Review: A Look Back at 2009
Curious to see what we were talking about on Twitter in 2009? Here’s the list: 2009 Twitter Trends News Events 1. #iranelection 2. Swine Flu 3. Gaza 4. Iran 5. Tehran 6. #swineflu 7. AIG 8. #uksnow 9. Earth Hour 10. #inaug09 People 1. Michael Jackson 2. Susan Boyle 3. Adam Lambert 4. Kobe (Bryant) 5. Chris Brown 6. Chuck Norris 7. Joe Wilson 8. Tiger Woods 9. Christian Bale 10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez) Movies 1. Harry Potter 2. New Moon 3. District 9 4. Paranormal Activity 5. Star Trek 6....
Read MoreYear In Review 2010 Trends on Twitter
The numbers are in. Over 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010, and Twitter has analyzed these tweets and organized them into the top categories as the overall top 10 Twitter trends. Twitter has broken out the top trending topics into eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports, and Hashtags. Twitter’s list indicates what we were interested in during the course of the year and what the buzz was online. It should be noted that this is a...
Read MorecomScore Releases September 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings
Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property with 144.2 million unique viewers. Yahoo! Sites captured the #2 spot with 54.4 million viewers, followed by Facebook.com with 52.2 million viewers. Microsoft Sites jumped 3 positions in September, securing fourth place with 45.5 million viewers. Google Sites had the highest number of overall viewing sessions with 1.9 billion and...
Read MoreKing James and How He Leveraged Twitter …
Tweet What can business owners learn from LeBron James? Any thoughts on what the most active water cooler buzz was about recently? World events? Global warming? The BP oil debacle? Not so much … Arguably the biggest question on the tip of everybody’s tongue was where NBA all star LeBron James would end up? While the rest of the NBA’s free agents had their people release their future plans to the media, LeBron took an unusual and heretofore untried marketing approach. Keeping his...
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