We have a few clients who want to deny social media and social networking is anything but a fad. I'm sure in whatever term was in use in 1439, the same was said of Gutenberg and his movable type printing press. The one thing constant in this world is change. Social media is part of that
The following infographic from Scout Analytics outlines the problems newspapers are facing in trying to get similar revenues from online content they once did from print content. The facts are the time spent with an actual newspaper is exponentially longer than with online news and consequently that translates into an obvious dollar per minute
This is one of the best infographics we've seen involving just about every aspect of online marketing produced by the folks at unbounce. Be sure to bookmark this and refer back often to help your business marketing better. Click on image to see full size.
Microsoft today purchased the king of VoIP, Skype for over $9.5 billion in cash. Some critics have called the deal grossly overpriced. Skype had been the subject of takeover rumors for the last several months with both Facebook and Google mentioned as possible suitors. This is Microsoft's largest purchase to date. Skype
The age of internet deals has only just begun. Groupon and Living Social, the two biggest companies in the online deals arena have a lot of competition and that market is poised for some VERY big name competition later this summer as both Facebook and Google are beta testing their own versions
