Tomorrow’s Technology In Sales And Marketing Alex Lawrence: Vice Provost – Weber State University (underscore before my name) LinkedIn: /AlexOnLinkedIn Facebook: /AlexLawrence Blog: StartupFlavor.com Google+: Gplus.am/Alex
Street Cred – Blah, Blah, Blah 47,000+ Twitter Followers (Top 10 in Utah) 4,500+ Facebook Friends (public account) 50,000+ Blog Readers/Subscribers (active in 2011) 2,700+ LinkedIn Connections 700+ FourSquare Friends 1,000+ mobile apps downloaded Average 1,300+ clicks per link and 100K+ views per post
50M Users Put In Perspective
Twitter Stats 500M registered users Adding 500,000 per day 250 million unique visitors per month 2000 million tweets per day 1.2 billion tweets per week Largest VC raise in history = $800M
Facebook Stats 750+ million active users 50% log on once per day Average user = 130 friends 350 million active mobile users per month 30 billion pieces of content (links, news, blog posts, photos) 70% of Facebook users are outside of the United States
Mobile Market Stats Average teen sends 1500 texts per month 76% of all phone subscribers use texting 2.3 trillion texts sent in 2010 With only 19% smartphone market penetration Over 500,000 iPhone apps, 37% are free Within 5 years, mobile internet access > desktop access
Advertising $ Follow Eyeballs Global Internet Ad Revenue $55MM$90B Ad Revenue Per User$9$86 Global Internet Users6MM2.2B
Facebook Ads Google AdWords market share is shrinking Facebook Ads growing faster/bigger Google+ designed to combat massive loss of eyeballs Search vs. Human Curation (social and sharing)
YouTube Television is actually moving to the Internet this time 108M people Watch 1.3B videos Today Used to say ‘Broadcast Yourself’ – not anymore 3 rd most watched brand? OraBrush – tongue scraper in Provo
What Am I Watching? Square - accept payments UBER - disrupt taxi, car wash and others Simple – financial institutions should pay close attention Republic Wireless ($19/month unlimited) Group buying 2.0 (flights, niche fashion, more) Location based services FourSquare Yelp Path
What Am I Watching? SalesForce – acquisition hungry StockTwits – social stock broker Fiverr and Task Rabbit – cheap outsourcing in US Red Laser, Amazon – live price comparisons Apps for everything 3D Printers
What Am I Watching? iPad & Co. Invading Everything Medical Home services Restaurants (order from mobile) Books (rent textbooks instead of buy) Movies (direct to home) Kids $35 tablet in India - $199 Amazon Kindle Fire
What Does It Mean? Every site has to be mobile friendly Brands that connect online win Internet marketing spend will be majority of budget Don’t understand the Internet Lose existing customers Lose future sales Lose your job
Learn = Earn Websites to bookmark Learn to code - Codecademy.com TechCrunch and Mashable – new tech companies Gigaom.com – general tech news (software & hardware) Gizmodo – gadets & hardware Topic specific blogs Sales Marketing Cutting edge hardware/software for you to adopt
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