Because you receive an e-mail notification when someone clicked on one of your links, you can imagine the coolness that comes with calling said person literally within the same moment that they’re browsing your website.

We live in a time where media and marketing have become the sex symbol of commerce, where turnover and profits seem secondary. I have yet to witness a business that manages to survive on this mantra though.

Probably the most perfect opportunity to impress your brand image onto your customer is ignored for reasons that boggle the mind. Coca Cola, the world’s most recognized brand, is spending billions of dollars each year on marketing and advertising, yet they don’t brand a single one of their emails.

Blogs continue to be highly rated, although of late, much less hyped. It has become a mainstream practice now. Where once the early adopters were marveling at the droves of traffic their blogs generated, the hype has flattened out, reinstating normality. Now it’s not as cool anymore to have blog, but rather accepted by the user that you would.

There are tons of these examples of social media gone bad floating around on the internet, but not many research surveys done to support any side of the matter. Do we take the Lightspeed survey as proof and go find a job selling insurance?

Mayotte, Equitorial Guinea and Rwanda ranks as the countries with the slowest internet connection speeds with 98%, 96% and 96% of them accessing the internet at speeds less than 256Kbsp.

There’s a smarter saying for that: “Monkey see, monkey do.” Unfortunately, as always, word of mouth carries exceptional credibility. Only these days, one idiot’s opinion has the ability to reach so many more idiots on such a frequent basis that it has become critical to keep an eye on them.