Damaramoe Business Articles: February 2017

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Online Marketing News: Visual Content Trends, Snapchat QR Codes & LinkedIn Buzzwords

10 Trends Driving Visual Content Marketing in 2017 (Infographic)
AdWeek reports: “53 percent of survey participants said that between 91 and 100 percent of their published content contained visual material, and more than 90 percent are using visual content in at least one-half of their posts.” AdWeek

Snapchat QR Codes Can Now Deep Link to Websites
Yes, you read that right — QR codes are back! Snapchat is now allowing users to send ‘Snapcodes’ to other users, and outside of the Snapchat network, that lead to whichever web page they’d like. With Instagram overtaking some of Snapchat’s user base with their live stories, this is definitely a level up move for the media platform. Snapchat

LinkedIn Reveals the 10 Most Overused Marketing Buzzwords on CVs and Profiles
Are you a guru? Maybe a Ninja? Strategic leader? You may be guilty of overusing buzzwords in your LinkedIn profile. Recently, the platform revealed the 10 most frequently used buzzwords on the platform, including words like strategic, creative, specialised and passionate. The Drum

Mind Blowing Business Facts

10. “Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products,” writes The New York Times.
9. “U.S. oil production grew more in 2012 than in any year in the history of the domestic industry, which began in 1859,” writes Tom Fowler of The Wall Street Journal.
8. Since 1928, the Dow Jones has increased more than 10% in a single day eight times, declined more than 10% in a single day four times, and gone either up or down more than 5% in a single day 136 times.
7. Related: The population of Americans aged 30 to 44 is about to start increasing for the first time since 2000.
6. There are 3.8 million fewer Americans aged 30 to 44 today than there were a decade ago.
5. According to a study by Harvard professor David Wise and two colleagues, 46.1% of Americans die with less than $10,000 in assets.
4. According to the Deutsche Bank Long-Term Asset Return Study, the last time interest rates were near current levels, in the 1950s, Treasury bonds lost 40% of their inflation-adjusted value over the following three decades.
3. According to Forbes, if a Google employee passes away, “their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.”
2. If you divide their net worths by their age, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates have each accumulated more than $100,000 in net worth for every hour they’ve been alive.
1. As of January 2013, there are 16 people left in the world who were born in the 1800s, according to the Gerontology Research Group. With dividends reinvested, U.S. stocks have increased 28,000-fold during their lifetimes.