Looking Into The Future of Internet Marketing

Web 2.0 is hot, whether you are doing online or offline business, these Web 2.0 sites are great pool of potential customers.
Besides YouTube, MySpace, you might like to take a look at SecondLife.com.
Lets see what are companies doing in SecondLife right now …………….
Regardless of the lack of economies of scale, some companies are pushing hard to make Second […]

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They have posted the “Top 5 Consumer Trends for 2005″.
1. Status Lifestyle
 Here’s something trend watchers, CMOs and other business professionals should be able to agree on: in the end, when dealing with (and selling to) people, everything always comes back […]

By 2011, online advertising is expected to reach $82 billion, growing at an annual rate of at least 21 percent.
This year online advertising will take bigger leap, aprticularly the vdieo ads. When Google invested in YouTude and also allow video ads on their AdSense ads, we all can expect the boom on online video ads just like […]

 I chanced upon a report wirtten by Kate Maddox for B2B.
Maddox introduces her report by noting that users (of the Internet) are just as interested in creating content as they are in watching it, and suggests that marketers must truly understand their target audience’s behavior and interests to cut through the clutter. She reports her […]

Dion Hinchcliffe from Sys-Con Magazine Italia listed The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006.
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Category: Social Network
Best Offering: MySpace

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Category:  Start Pages
Best Offering: Netvibes

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Category: Social Bookmarking
Best Offering: StumbleUpon
 
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Category: Peer Production News
Best Offering: Netscape.com

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Category:  Social Media Sharing
Best Offering: YouTube

Runners Up: […]

JWT, the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and the fourth-largest in the world, announced today 70 “in” products, services and trends that will help to define 2007.
“As globalization continues to make our world seem smaller, localization will come to a head in 2007,” says Ann Mack, director of trendspotting at JWT.
This echo my earlier […]

 In eMarketer.com, it listed the key 10 prediction for Year 2007, again, the topics on Video, Social Networking and mobile TV are among the top.
I can surely say for Internet Marketers to drive traffic (huge traffic) to their websites is to tap on Video, join the Social Network sites and plan out strategy on Net TV advertising. 
More and more poeple will […]

Chanced upon a blog and I extracted the following  which I found similarity to my own predictions, particularly “Giving users a choice”, “Stick it to people”.   
I found “UK gets blogging” interesting. Blogging is already very popular among the youth in Asian countries particularly Singapore, even the politicians in Singapore are into  blogging. 
It looks like blogging […]

This is the year for the Web 2.0 sites.
Take a look at the Social Networking Sites like MySpace, Friendsters, who are the main subscribers? The young generation!
They are creating a new wave, a powerful one.
User-generated content properties, such as Wikipedia, MySpace, and YouTube, have moved to the top of the pack, owing to their focus […]

Chris Richardson from www.Webpronews.com has these predictions for Year 2007.
The first thing eMarketer foresees is an increase in spending for online advertising, a market that’s already enjoying a lucrative existence. If you follow the trends of online ad spending from the last few years, you can see why they would make this prognostication.
In 2004, $9.6 […]