Of all the American income groups, the happiest income group earn between $50,000 and $74,999 a year. Source: Harris Poll and Harvard Stat.
Entries from May 29th, 2009
Social Networking Usage via Smart Phones
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
About 15% of the 25 million U.S. smart-phone users access social-networking Web sites “almost every day,” compared with about 3.6% of users of more basic “feature phones,” according to comScore M:Metrics Inc.
via Networking Sites Extend Reach - WSJ.com.
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Internet Spend now 17% of total ad spend
May 27th, 2009 No Comments
Internet Ad Spend Now 17% of total Ad Spend.
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Some interesting numbers on work-life balance
May 21st, 2009 No Comments
The average middle-class family will spend $184,000 to raise a baby from birth to age 17.
Sixty percent of American parents feel considerable conflict between work and family, according to a survey by the Work and Family Institute.
The number of vacation days that go unused by American workers each year is 574 million, according to the [...]
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Heavy vs. Light Users
May 19th, 2009 No Comments
The Digital Future study found very large differences between the online hours of heavy users and light users. Light users spent an average of 2.8 hours per week online, compared to heavy users who average 42 hours a week online.
Internet Non-Users: Reasons for Not Being Online? — The most common reason for not using [...]
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Mobile Ad Spend
May 19th, 2009 No Comments
mobile advertising market is expected to rise to $16.2 billion in 2011 up from $1.5 billion in 2006 Source: Yahoo
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Halal foods - an $632 billion market segment
May 17th, 2009 No Comments
the halal food market has exploded in the past decade and is now worth an estimated $632 billion annually, according to the Halal Journal, a Kuala Lumpur-based magazine. That is about 16% of the entire global food industry. Throw in the fast-growing Islam-friendly finance sector and the myriad other products and services — cosmetics, real [...]
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A huge untapped market - 70% of businesses do not have a website?
May 17th, 2009 No Comments
Nearly 70% of small businesses don’t have Web sites, says an annual survey by Verizon Communications. The USA’s 5.6 million small employers are the nation’s economic engine, producing a majority of new jobs and often leading the nation into economic recovery.Source
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1000 startups fail for every one successful one. Really?
May 17th, 2009 No Comments
Any idea what the ratio is between the Googles and Facebooks and other startups? Know how many companies fail every year in Silicon Valley? Anybody want to guess? Do you know what the ratio is? I’m sorry? Over a thousand to one. Now, one of the nice things about human nature is every one of [...]
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A dying industry - Land Telephone Lines?
May 15th, 2009 No Comments
More than one of every five American homes (20.2%) had only wireless telephones (also known as cellular telephones, cell phones, or mobile phones) during the second half of 2008, an increase of 2.7 percentage points since the first half of 2008.Another Dying Industry - Land Telephone Lines.
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