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Email dominates the mobile picture

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:37:50 +0000

Email dominated the mobile picture even more strongly than social networking did the desktop: If all time spent on the mobile web was condensed into a single hour, US internet users would have spent 25 minutes in June checking email.

Steady Growth Projected!

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:18:18 +0000

The Internet is being accessed by more and more people each year. The growth in the number of internet users has been at a significant, and steady rate and is projected to continue that growth.

If you do business of any kind, on the Internet, stay the course and continue to establish your brands, your affiliate links, your social network foot print, whatever you do…. It can pay of big and the possibilities are huge!

The Power of Word-of-Mouth

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:53:10 +0000

As internet usage grows and as more and more people become internet savvy, we see a continued rise in online sales and advertising. The internet is a great place to showcase your services or products, but statistics show that word-of-mouth is still one of the best marketing tools to expose your products or services and, more importantly, create a sale.

There are various low-cost ways to market your service or product by word of mouth. Here are a few stats to help you create a strong word-of-mouth campaign.

The average consumer mentions specific brands over 90 times per week in conversations with friends, family, and co-workers. (John Moore, WOMMA, 2010)

90% of consumers online trust recommendations from people they know; 70% trust opinions of unknown users. (Econsultancy, July 2009)

Online user reviews have the biggest influence on consumer electronics purchases, with 43.7 percent of purchases affected by word of mouth. (BIGresearch, December 2009)

A March 2009 study by Knowledge Networks found that between 10% and 24% of US social media users turned to social networks when making purchase decisions about various categories of products and services. (eMarketer, October 2009)

Facebook, blogs, Twitter and customer reviews are considered the most effective tactics for mobilizing consumers to talk up products online. (Etailing survey of 117 companies, September 2009)

Getting more Americans Connected

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:26:02 +0000

By Keith B

Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to all Americans.

We need to support getting more broadband connectivity for more Americans. It will help America become more competitive, globally and will also help many of our children to learn, by having access to a 24-hour encyclopedia! Not to mention, it will force more Americans to become familiar with wireless home networks, internet applications and multimedia.

The Obama administration and Congress have identified universal broadband as a key to driving economic development, producing jobs and bringing educational opportunities and cutting-edge medicine to all corners of the country.

“We’re at a point where high-speed access to the Internet is critical to the ability of people to be successful in today’s economy and society at large,” said Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an arm of the Commerce Department that released the data Tuesday.

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The NTIA and the Rural Utilities Service, part of the Agriculture Department, are in the middle of handing out $7.2 billion in stimulus funding for broadband. Most of that money will be used to build networks in parts of the country that lack high-speed Internet access.

And next month, the Federal Communications Commission will deliver policy recommendations to Congress on how to make universal broadband a reality. Among other things, the FCC is expected to propose expanding the fund that subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural communities and finding more airwaves for wireless broadband services.

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