Average Output per Worker
Robert H. Reid
The media have been mining human attention – the ultimate finite resource – for centuries. Traditionally, they have done so in two ways: charging for access and selling impressions. Charging for access is straightforward. It involves offering people something fun or valuable enough to do with their spare attention that they’ll pay for it. Selling impressions involves carving out small slices of the attention that … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Business Rules, Marketing / Sales
Amount of Flash Media Shipped Worldwide
Clayton Christensen
[Sticking to “core competencies” is] dangerously inward-looking. Competitiveness is more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you’re good at.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Extended Stay Hotel Market (U.S.)
John Battelle
Marketers are in a slow, denial-laden shift from buying content-attached audiences, like those of TV shows, to buying intent-attached audiences, like those of search engines and personal video recorders.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis
Seth Godin
A promotion is worthless if it doesn’t translate interruption into a permission given. If all you do is interrupt, then it’s a waste of time.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Advertising, Marketing / Sales
John Doerr
I never invest in someone who says they’re going to do something; I invest in people who say they’re already doing something and just want funding.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
U.S. Sake Market
Cosmetic Medical Procedures in the U.S.
Pay-to-View
Mohanbir Sawhney
Customers think about products and markets very differently from the way products and markets are bundled and sold in the physical marketplace. Customers think in terms of activities, while firms think in terms of products. Activities that are logically related in cognitive space may be spread across very diverse providers in the marketplace.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Miscellaneous
Mohanbir Sawhney
The limitations of space have long dictated the economics of exchange transactions… In the Network Economy, the limitations of space no longer apply… But a funny thing happened on the path to frictionless capitalism. The economics of distance died, but the economics of attention took its place… But in many markets, customers find themselves overwhelmed with vendors clamoring for their attention, and vendors find themselves … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Economics, IT / Technology / E-Business
John Sviokla
Fundamentally, prediction is never valued as much as explanation in academia.
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis