Direct Marketing Observations

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On Dependence of 3rd Party Platforms and Leaving the Grid

Direct Marketing Observations

What happens if Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Youtube, Pandora, Verison, Spotify, Evernote, Amazon, Google and Microsoft were to go away? Without technology, how would we connect with people? The phone, the written word via snail mail, and or lo and behold… face to face? What happens? Life goes on.

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What or Who will Continue to Shape our Social Media World?

Direct Marketing Observations

Video -The number of videos viewed on YouTube every day is 2 billion. Apple -Apple continues to set the standard on how we “should&# and do consume our media, though don’t be amazed at their seemingly disinterest in applying branded social tools and functionality to their devices, just be patient.