It’s a new year, filled with new opportunities. Here’s what I see coming:
- Outsourcing continues to grow… but this year it happens in small-town USA. Business processing outsourcing (BPO), especially call centers, bring back jobs to America from India and other places where costs are rising and quality has plateaued.
- The social Web remains ubiquitous. Facebook is a trend and like all trends it will fade… but not this year. Specialized social networks will however; begin to seriously chip away bits and pieces of Facebook’s giant market share as generic social networks become passé.
- Tablets and smartphones continue to eat the PC’s lunch. Content publishers will make more money via apps, because even when consumers won’t pay for content, they’ll pay for apps. Content apps become the savior of the publishing industry, as the iPad saves their dying business model… for a little while. Continue reading…
Life seems to always be about decisions. Many years ago I realized my life was like the poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.
Although I chose to live my life on the road less traveled, I’ve periodically found myself wandering onto the other trail… especially in this year’s horrible economy. Continue reading…
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.”
“So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.” Continue reading…
About 4:30 minutes into the video Gary details how he took his brand’s marketing effort sideways in order to go over the top in sales…
Among other skills… I am a WordPress security expert and will be speaking at WordCamp Boston on Saturday morning, July 23rd. The topic…
“WordPress Security – Facts and Fiction”
If you’re into WordPress or would like to learn about it and you’re in the Boston area, where I lived for fourteen years (a story for another time)… I expect to see you at WordCamp Boston.
In case you don’t know… WordPress is the #1 digital marketing platform Continue reading…
