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I love my peeps over at Column Five, but I think they may have tipped a few many watching reruns of Diggnation. Digg? Really? By any stretch of the imagination, Digg‘s grave has been Dugg and StumbleUpon is the one planting flowers. Too soon? Sorry folks… when the audience leaves, the social app dies. It’s social media evolution. But wait… really… we missed LinkedIn, too? Google Business? Are you kidding me? Perhaps it was something a little stronger than beer. … Continue reading
In 2011, Facebook passed Google as the #1 most visited site on the internet with 11% of the world’s population and the average user having 130 friends spending 700 minutes a month on the network. Every 60 seconds 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 status updates and 136,000 uploaded photos. The numbers are simply mind-boggling and continue to increase. Overseas where folks don’t have electricity or broadband, they use cars to charge their smartphones and connect via mobile phone. The world … Continue reading
LinkedIn has over 135 million members internationally and the average household income of a LinkedIn user is over $100,000 annually! The first thing I do returning from a business trip or meeting is to enter all my contacts in LinkedIn, review their profiles, and see which ones I should follow up with. In fact, I don’t even accept resumes… if you don’t have a comprehensive LinkedIn profile, it’s the first strike against you. LinkedIn is the proverbial dark horse of … Continue reading
Wirefly recently did a poll of Mobile Phone users and found that 64% of mobile users don’t use text messaging. As I was researching this post, I was surprised that a few sites were shocked by the numbers. Perhaps I’m an older user than some of the bloggers who commented, but I was actually surprised for the opposite reason. I was surprised that 65% of users actually did use text messaging. Perhaps it’s simply that I’ve turned 40 years old … Continue reading
This is week 7 on my new job and it has been an incredible week to celebrate. Our Online Ordering is differentiating itself from the crowd of competition out there and doing it quickly. Next week we’re flying down to Tampa to talk to another restaurant franchise, one of the largest in the country. What’s attracting these customers is simple. We get the order to the restaurant. That’s what it’s all about, right? When you order online, you expect to … Continue reading
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