Insights on the Business of Life
Here are some short, quick insights on a variety of business topics. I share a clip/snippet of articles and posts that I've found valuable, reference the source article, and provide a personal comment/insight on the topic.
In going through the drive-through at Wendy's yesterday, I noticed this new twitter promotion decal on the drive through window. It is always interesting to see how major brands have deeply thought about, designed and structured their social media promotions. In this particular example, users … [Read more...]
Skills pay the bills... And engineering leads the way. Average starting salaries for the top 10 majors: Chemical Engineering: $66,400 Computer Science: $64,400 Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering: $64,000 Mechanical Engineering: $62,900 Electrical/Electronics and … [Read more...]
Marketers plan to split their online advertising between direct response and brand advertising initiatives Driving this growth in brand advertising is increasing consumer consumption of digital media 70% of brand marketers expect to up their spending on social media advertising, while similar … [Read more...]
This chart suggests that to be an entrepreneur that an emphasis on the following five dimensions are vital. In your mind, what skills are key to entrepreneurial success? The Five Defining Traits to Delivery Driven Leadership Associating – Drawing connections between questions, problems, … [Read more...]
This is one of the best personal scanners that I've ever found. I use one of these at my home office for personal bills and family documents. I use one at work for business filing and our administrative and accounting team also use them to scan/index into PDFs. Most all of our documents are then … [Read more...]
LinkedIn now counts over 200 million members, in more than 200 countries, and in 19 languages around the world. Check out this infographic showing you who's who in your global professional network. … [Read more...]
If you want your content to be shared... Video works. Mobile video viewers are highly likely to share mobile video content New study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. 92% share mobile video content with others 16% share mobile video content daily, 33% do so weekly. (56%) are sharing … [Read more...]
Incredible Twitter Statistics for 2012 via Brian Honigman: 100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures From 2012. There are 175 million tweets sent from Twitter every day in 2012. (source: Infographics Labs) The average Twitter user has tweeted 307 times. (source: Diego Basch's … [Read more...]
2012 Amazing Facebook Statistics via Brian Honigman: 100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures From 2012. Barack Obama's victory Facebook post was the most liked photo on Facebook with over 4 million likes. (source: The Huffington Post) 25 percent of users on Facebook don't … [Read more...]
“Helping People. Using Technology. Building Business.” These three phrases have been the bedrock principles throughout my 30 year entrepreneurial career in technology/marketing. To be most helpful to you, it seems fitting to focus the writings and insights on the blog in 2013 toward a central … [Read more...]
