I recently attended a concert featuring 2 European metal bands, Within Temptation and Lacuna Coil. The crowd was small but very enthusiastic! It was the first concert Within Temptation had ever given in America and they expressed surprise and delight at the response. I think they underestimated the power of the Internet to spread good music!

Anyway, the question is, how popular are these bands in Europe, particularly their home countries (The Netherlands and Italy)? Are they played on the radio there? Do they play stadiums or small venues? Obviously they are something of a niche market but I am just curious.

Thanks in advance!

Assume you are analyzing the market opportunity of a distance learning company, Learnmore.com, that creates education courses delivered over the Internet for the Fortune 1000 corporate market. Assume that the overall size of the distance learning market is $50 billion. The overall market can be broken down into three major market segments: Corporate, College, and Elementary/High School, each of which accounts for a third of the market. Within the Corporate market, there are two market niches: Fortune 1000, which accounts for 60% of the market and all others, which together account for 40% of the market. What is Learnmore.com's realistic market opportunity, approximately?

50, 16.6, 10, or 6.6

Its multiple choice

Information Systems are used in which of the following organisations?
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professional
educational
governmental
all of the above

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Information Systems in the 21st century are:
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slower than in the past
continue to evolve with advances in hardware and software
used by only a few professional individuals
stable and should not change

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Data is raw unformatted pieces or lists of words or numbers, information is:
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data that has been organised in a form that is useful
accummulated knowledge
what the end user puts into the computer
what the computer prints out for the end user

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Computer based information systems can be described as:
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any complicated technology that requires an expert to use
a combination of hardware, software and telecommunications networks that people build and use to collect, create and distribute data
any technology used to replace or supplement employees
any technology used to leverage human capital

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Which of the following is not a common type or category of information systems used in organisations
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transaction processing
decision support
enterprise resource planning
web graphics

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Which of the following is not an example of an information system?
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an accounting system
a conference suite
a combination of different software packages
a database of customers

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What term is used to show how small the world has become as a result of Internet technology?
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global town
global city
global village
global world

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What strategy do companies use when deciding which aspect should be under central control and which should be decentralised?
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global business strategy
transnational business strategy
multi-domestic business strategy
operational business strategy

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What does the term 'competitive advantage' mean?
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becoming a world leader in business administration
gaining more employees than your competitor
coming first in a particular market niche
gaining more customers or making more profit than your competitors

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What is the definition of a 'digital firm'?
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a set of business processes that only work using Internet technology
where nearly all of the organisation's significant business relationships are digitably enabled
a flexible organisation
electronically integrated supply chain

My partner and I have been working for the past year and a half developing a marketing system to help promote local businesses in a certain niche market (sorry wont say what the niche is). But when we go to pitch our service we are running into problems. First this is what we do:

Basically we have developed a website much akin yellow pages which only caters towards this niche, over the past year and a half we have become highly optimized for almost every category in the niche ranking in the top 3 spots in Google Yahoo and Bing (MSN). (outranking even yellowpages, yelp, yellowbook and others)

However we are not only offering a subscription into the directory (which gives the clients more exposure). We build each client a website, they get to choose their domain name, we create a custom classified advertisements to use, and we promote their businesses through Google Adwords, (this is done by having adwords drop the click through onto their listing page on our site.) In addition we give the clients access to a backend where they can track how many impressions their classified ads recieve, how many clickthroughs to their website, and a host of other statistical tools.

This is above and beyond yellowpages, in fact many clients we talk to say they spend 150-300 a month on yellowpages and recieve NO results.

We have a few clients who are very satisfied with the service, and it has helped them land additional business. In fact for most of our clients, only 1 job from a lead covers a months charge or more, and we only charge $50/mo promotional rate for 6 months then it goes to $80/mo from there.

Now here is the problem we face when trying to get new clients…. Many of you may have been cold called and pitched by some internet search engine optimization company that promises that they can get you on the front page of Google for a fee.. Most of those companies are shady and provide no results. For some reason when we start talking to people this is what they think we are doing… when in fact this is NOT what we are doing at all!

I'm kind of at a how I can effectively market our service without being confused as one of these shady businesses. Since this is not what we are doing.

This is related to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's comments regarding using salacious material to increase advertising revenue in niche publications. Sites like Shine which is aimed at the female audience has an over abundance of articles pertaining to male infidelity thus using the Tiger Woods escapade as a means to invigorate ad targeting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091210/ap_o…

I have never heard of female infidelity being exploited in such a manner in order to spur advertising revenue amongst men. Are advertising companies banking on women collectively internalizing infidelity more than men?

Is it more marketable to tear a man down in the media for cheating than women in order to keep up the illusion that men cheat more? Does sexism come into play here at all?

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Berlusconi said: "The G8 has as its task the regulation of financial markets… I think the next G8 can bring to the table a proposal for a regulation of the internet."

Berlusconi didn't explain what he meant by "regulate the internet", but the mere mention of it has prompted dismay among Italian commentators. Berlusconi owns swathes of the Italian mass media.

Any G8 move next year to "regulate the internet" led by Berlusconi is likely to attract criticism. He has often been accused of using his power to try to silence dissent. He lost a long-running libel battle against The Economist earlier this year after it said he was not "fit to run Italy" and was this week suing American critic Andrew Stille for defamation*.

However, the governments of industrialised nations have been ramping up their rhetoric against internet content they view as unacceptable. The UK has introduced new laws and revived arcane ones to clamp down on extremist websites and niche pornography. Australia is busy implementing filters.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/…

Isn't this just one more way to regulate and disallow freedom of speech?

how to prevent to be scammed by marketing Scam on the internet?

So I started a company about 2 years ago. It has become pretty successful locally but we are just beginning to branch out on the Internet. It is a niche market and the competitor(s) mainly one…..are extremely harsh on other competitors. They are known to be cruel, slander your company and personal name. I am prepared for this and have enough in my portfolio to shut them up….and enough big clients to prove my standing in the industry. However, I don't think in feel comfortable listing my real name on my bio. I think I may want to create an alias of sorts. I really dint need lectures on anything regarding my business or industry. Justbsome helpful suggestions for a good name that will be memorable….nothing too out there please!

I am female…..so keep that in mind.

I have thought of names like: January, janae, Christina, summer, Capri, chenault pronounced(Chanel) etc etc etc……..

First and last names or first and middle names.

Thank you!

Let me explain:
The idea is to basically show as much of the internet from a visual perspective where popular markets and industries could be grouped together and presented like a country is on Google Maps. Then the further you zoom in to any given market or industry it will show niches or even websites with scale determined by their popularity.

Plus, taking the idea one step further you could even have a feature that's similar to the Google maps street view where roads could be replaced by links between websites allowing people to visually surf the web and possibly search the deep web much more effectively.

Just like how Google Maps works, the level of zoom will determine how broad a search is.

Also, one final thought, it could even somehow show other information such as popular search terms and current trends depending on the type of data someone wants to view.

So is this a good or bad idea? I'd appreciate it if you could explain your answer as well. Cheers.

WARNING: !!! No Stealing my idea otherwise i'd want my Royalties !!! LOL

Hi, my name is Margaret and I am planning to get into this "internet marketing" thing. I am currently a newby but i am willing to learn and put an effort into it. My budget is pretty low – 500$. Would You recommend me niche or something to start with? A friend of mine recommended me to buy a web page from a auction. I looked around in a site called "Flippa" and I saw a whole network (11 pages) with a pretty low price. Thanks for the attention! Oh and i almost forgot. Here is the link to the auction https://flippa.com/2649261-network-of-11-highly-profitable-websites Could you please check it and leave me a response? Thanks again and I whish all the best for you!