Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales were up from last year and that’s good news! People seem over the shell shock of hard times and feel like spending money. There's still a fair amount of economic doom and gloom being talked about, but it’s not all bad.
Facebook is expected to be valued at $100-billion!! The on-line music site Pandora just reported their latest quarterly earnings are up 99% to $75-million and you want to talk about growth?! Last quarter Pandora racked up 2.1-billion hours of streaming! A 102% increase from the same period last year. Pandora claims 66% of all U.S. internet radio time and 4.3% of all radio listening in America including am and fm...And it’s growing! Unemployment is still high, but the future is all about the internet anyway.
It’s time to rethink the model of the typical j-o-b and try to figure out what to do on-line. I know a guy who does nothing, but come up with ideas for websites and how to get people to sign up (for a nominal fee of course). They're not all great, but heck if one or two hit.
It’s an exciting thing to think about isn't it? Controlling your own destiny and not having to spend your time working for somebody else! I think people should spend less time occupying and instead come up with ideas. Steve jobs said, "People don't know what they want until you show it to them." Now’s the time to go for it
