http://www.maounis.com Webaholic Entrepreneur on New Economy (Some guy with some thoughts) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:11:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ha, this is cool. These are very useful tools for companies to use, when they come to a very difficult (rare) situation of their life cycle. Only some companies over the years have been using these kind of tools and this is because it is very difficult for one to ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2010/12/31/anti-over-expectation-pr-and-marketing-trickstools/ It is a happy new year comming (not economicaly for many people) but it's really gonna be a new good one. Trully there are five and a half billion people only a few years (maybe months) away from their first smartphone, which in most cases will also be their first ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2010/12/27/its-a-happy-new-year-ahead/ Word Lens offers Real Time language translation (text), Google offers real time voice translation and when we put all these to Apple devices I feel we can do things 3 times faster, easier and with more confidence than ever. Our word is really changing considering all these new funcy ideas that ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2010/12/20/word-lens-google-apple-and-a-caramel-macchiato/ Why some companies don't dare to touch their services? Are they afraid of collapsing? Let's take twitter and the service that is now valued for about $ 1 Billion and only few people in the world can understand why. Why twitter is stacked to 140 characters per tweet? OK they ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2010/03/03/the-most-unusefull-service-to-pay-for/ There is a major activity of online cloud services to Merge information that can easily extract the core info from a set of data. This is by far the most interesting result of the new economy by now. You can see two of the most interesting examples here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (It actually ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2009/05/25/merging-and-abstracting/ There must be a connection between agents and the recession. Travel agents... gone. Stock brokers... gone. Real estate brokers... in trouble. Photographer's agents, too. Literary agents? The problem with being a helpful, efficient but largely anonymous middleman is pretty obvious. Someone can come along who is cheaper, faster and more efficient. And that someone might ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2009/03/22/where-have-all-the-agents-gone/ In the middle of an economic crisis everyone needs the work to be done for free (Germany is an exception in my point of view). At the bottom line this means that everyone would like the cheapest services for processes that he or she used to pay for in the ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2009/03/10/revenue-implications-when-it-comes-to-free-services/ This has been a major impact for many bloggers and marketing departments and it seems that is a really powerful tool for spreading the word of each new product, post or news. It is a fundamental tool for a company to reach it's supporters via services like Twitter. But the big ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2009/03/02/twitter-please-mash-us-quick/ It seems that more revenue is very close to clients than it is to clicks. Conversion rates are noticeable only if clicks are from the right group of people. Of course this makes sense. It would have been wrong if it was the other way around. So it is more important ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2009/02/24/get-more-clients-not-just-clicks/ It's a fact that not everyone is in trouble with the upcoming recession. How can this happen? Good question... Not all services and products are so bad under this situation. Specifically in the tourist industry hoteliers must find solutions to spend less money and have more reservations. The answer is the ... http://www.maounis.com/index.php/2009/02/22/recession-treats-everyone-differently-in-the-travel-industry/ mpla