By marco on March 15, 2008
Check out the new site called bizak – The Web… Quantified.
You go to the website, enter “your biz numbers” and receive and estimate, called The Bizak Estimate. It creates an apples to apples comparison and benchmark that can be used as a starting point for comparative purposes.
The Site is created by Tom O’Keefe, you find [...]
Posted in Marketing, VC, Web, Web Tools | Tagged company, comparison, start-up, valuation, web 2.0
By marco on February 28, 2008
Came across a chart from eMarketer about the distribution of e-commerce in Europe mentioned in the article: The UK Internet Boom:
This is a very interesting find. I would not expect the UK to be this far ahead in Internet sales. Also if you take the size of e.g. UK vs Germany into consideration. To [...]
Posted in e-commerce, Marketing, statistics, Web | Tagged e-commerce, eMarketer, europe, statistics, stats, UK
By admin on January 3, 2008
WIRED MAGAZINE has a very interesting and in depth article in ISSUE 16.01, called Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games. Below you will find a short excerpt:
On February 10, 2007, the first night of Nine Inch Nails’ European tour, T-shirts went on sale at a 19th-century Lisbon concert hall with [...]
Posted in Marketing, Media, Music, Reading, Web | Tagged coded messages, immersive games, Marketing, wired
By marco on November 25, 2007
eBay’s growth slowed down in the last year(s). One of the major reactions to slowing down growth rates is to shift from a seller-centric approach to a buyer-centric approach. A sea change! For now the main focus is to advance search results (as eBay has a ever changing inventory).
In a recent article from FastCompany titled “eBay’s Chaos Theory” we learn:
“We haven’t [...]
Posted in Marketing, News, Web | Tagged eBay
By marco on November 20, 2007
Do you make online video? Always go through the hassle of uploading/submitting your video to sever sites? Or gave up and only focused on one (the best?) video site?
Oh, and…. how many users watch my videos on all these platforms? How big was my audience for that specific episode again?
Tubemogul to the rescue!
Everybody how makes web video and/or vlogs will find this site extremely helpful. I have not yet checked it out but heard very positive things about it. [...]
Posted in iTV, Marketing, Media, video, Web Tools | Tagged statistics, Tubemogul, video
By marco on August 31, 2006
ComScore has launched a monthly ranking of the top European Websites:
Google Holds Top Spot in European Site Rankings, According to comScore World Metrix.
Most interesting is that “Google sites were visited by a greater proportion of the online population in Europe (75 percent) than in the U.S. (60 percent)”.
Find the full press release here at ComScores [...]
Posted in Marketing, News, Web
By marco on August 16, 2006
There is a very long article today in the WallStreetJournal called Coming Soon to Cellphone Screens — More Ads Than Ever.
Several US Mobile phone operators seem to test how they will be deploying ads on your mobile phone. Yahoo! seems to have a deal already that is placing it on the go2 directory where you [...]
Posted in Marketing, Mobile, News
By marco on July 14, 2006
Zimodiroll might be my new web 2.0 Internet startup! At least this is what the website of Andrew Woolridge told me. Oh by the way my company product is: rss-based auctions via instant messaging. Nice!
For the business plan i might use the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™. Send me you best company names and business plan [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Tools
By marco on July 10, 2006
More and more companies are using corporate blogs as part of their (marketing) communication.
But a blog should be a way to open up to your customers. Another example is the new corporate blog of Dell like Micropersuation writes:
Dell Starts Corporate Blog, But Fails to Address Critical Issues
More importantly, Dell really failed to get the blog [...]
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, News, Web, Web Tools
By marco on July 6, 2006
The Wall Street Journal via Reuters is citing sources that AOL plans to make their services free for all Internet users to gain higher marketing revenues. They are losing subscribers on a fast pace and hope to get users back on their platform with this offering.
Posted in Marketing, News, Web
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