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Facebook Shares Drop After Barron’s Snub
Is Facebook overvalued or do folks not understand the revenue potential of Social Media (Facebook specifically)?
Facebook shares dropped on Monday after financial weekly Barron’s questioned the social networking company’s value and priced its stock at just $15. Facebook’s shares slid 10 percent to $20.64 in mid-day trade on Nasdaq, about 46 percent off of its $38 IPO price in May. The decline shed most of its gains from the previous week, when shares were boosted by news that the company was testing a new mobile advertising network.
Wonder Why Zuckerberg Is More Polished in Public? Thank His New Speechwriter.
Articulating the correct message is more important in the internet age than ever before. Meet the messaging guy for Mark Zuckerberg.
Dex Rorricke Barton is the new man behind Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is not sweating under pressure anymore during interviews and speeches. He now comes off calm, cool, and collected. Thanks to Mr. Torricke-Barton.
Using Social Media to Develop a Customer For Life
Developing a Customer For Life means listening and giving customers what they want. Wal-Mart, Frito Lay, Estee Lauder, Samuel Adams and others ask their followers what new products they would like to see. The old way was convening ‘focus groups’. Social Media proves to be more immediate, effective, and having statistically greater significance. Learn how data is leveraged in novel ways to grow customers and sales.
Social Media Are Giving a Voice to Taste Buds
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eBay is Making a Comeback
You can earn your Customer For Life with strategy, process and technology. Many in the marketplace were writing off eBay. Its most recent financials stunned both analysts and investors with their outstanding results. What was the secret? Innovation. eBay recognized the explosion in mobile devices and invested heavily in the platform as a medium. An amazing 90 million downloaded eBay’s mobile app. eBay also connected effortless single-click payments with PayPal.
As Andy Grove, CEO at Intel, famously said, “Only the Paranoid Survive”. eBay is demonstrating that they listen to their customers and provide services that they want. They are vigilant of competitors and seem to have embraced an agile business model. Somewhat tarnished brands such as Yahoo, Facebook and Zynga can also thrive with evolving strategies. Mobile and dynamic thinking should be in everyone’s playbook.