2004 Trends
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Advertising Set to Rebound
Marketing Execs Target 2004 Spending
Fifty percent of U.S. marketing executives expect to increase spending on seminars and events in 2004. Forty-eight percent plan on increasing electronic advertising. Forty percent will increase online marketing, and 29% plan on spending more on keyword search engine buys. That’s according to…
Online Sales To Set Record, Profits Stay Thin
Web shoppers are expected to spend more money than ever before during the annual 2004 holiday shopping season, but online retailers could face a tough time making much profit. Reuters reports that Forrester Research predicts that while online holiday sales will rise 42% to $12.2 billion this year…
Hot Jobs for 2004
With 2003 almost at an end, executive search firm Christian & Timbers has identified the hot and not-so-hot jobs and industries for the upcoming year. The industries likely to offer positive employment opportunities include healthcare, food service, security, services to the aging, and real…
The Hottest Businesses for 2004 — Part #2
The following is Part #2 of the list of the hottest new U. S. business opportunities for 2004, as contained in Entrepreneur Magazine. Part #1 of the Entrepreneur list was published yesterday (see the post prior to this one):
Online Matchmaking — Americans are willing to pay for connections,…
The Hottest Businesses for 2004 — Part #1
Entrepreneur Magazine has issued a list of the hottest new U. S. business opportunities for 2004. Because the list is so lengthy (18 entries), we will use two separate posts to cover the opportunities.
Part #1 of the Entrepreneur list includes:
Online Learning — a $6.6 Billion (US)…
Weekly SMB Market Roundup
The week ending October 31, 2003 saw fewer high-tech product and service introductions targeted toward SMBs than the previous week. Yet there was still a push to capture SMB market dollars in the United States, Europe and Asia. Some of the highlights:
- BellSouth introduces a packaged…
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