Products/Brands Atop Blogger’s Most Discussed Topics
According to Technorati’s 2009 State of the Blogosphere report, 70% of bloggers talk about products or brands on their blogs, eMarketer reports. And obviously some of these mentions would be prompted by free sample products, etc.—a practice popular enough to draw the notice of the FTC, which now requires disclosure on such review products.
Interestingly, corporate bloggers were least likely to blog about brands and products (lawsuit anyone?), and hobbyist bloggers were second least likely. Technorati defined hobbyist bloggers as those that blog for fun. They don’t make money (and only some of them want to, which I think is awesome). Instead of brands and products, they mostly share “personal musings” (53% of hobbyists), and 76% blog to speak their minds. 72% of bloggers fell into this category.
“Part-timers” were most likely to mention brands and products. They blog to supplement their main income. 15% of respondents, most part-timers blog to share their expertise or attract new clients.
“Self-employed” bloggers, 9% of the survey respondents, blog full time for their own company or organization. (Corporate bloggers, 4%, blog for someone else’s company/organization—including their employer.)
Despite the focus on products and brands, bloggers felt that the free goodies weren’t the most important benefits from their blogs—gaining visibility (individually or for their business) and bringing in new business were the top two benefits cited by bloggers surveyed.
What do you think? Do you blog about brands? What benefits have you seen from blogging? Which group do you fall into?
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Last month was marked by considerable improvements in financial sphere. Not just financial analysts and major companies chief managers made respective comments on the matter, but influential political figures did, too.
Even Dominique Strauss-Khan, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, who is always reserved in his predictions, said on September 24, 2009 during the TV conference with members of Yalta European Strategy international forum: “The peak of the universal economic crisis is over. We can already see the light in the end of the tunnel. Economies of many countries are becoming healthier already”.
Meanwhile, world stock pitches influenced by the news of recession end and coming crisis end were marked with record growth rates. RTC – Russian stock index – became the leader of the year, its rate has doubled.
We would like to remind you that MMCIS investments analysts were some of the first to announce of the crisis ending and stabilization of economic situation in the investment market.
MMCIS investments published financial reports for September, 2009 show that positive tendencies continue. Thus, Fund’s income for the period was 32% annual for USD deposits. Average annual profitability of deposits for 2009 is 47.44%, which agrees with the planned profitability rate. Fund’s capitalization this month has did not increase much, however positive trend continues. For October 1, 2009, total amount of the Fund’s assets was 473.99 million USD, it being 468.76 for September 1, 2009, and 444.25 million USD for August 1. So, Fund’s assets increased by 30.98% from the beginning of the year, which is 1.45% more comparing to last month.
Speaking of Forex, FOREX MMCIS group analysts point out the increase of activity on major world stock exchanges and increase of major currency pair EUR/USD volatility for the last month, which is the evidence of banks reviving in the market. Thus, EUR/USD exchange rate fluctuation for the period from August 1, 2009 to September 1, 2009 was between 1.4045 and 1.4445, and for the period from September 1, 2009 to October 1, 2009 – between 1.4177 and 1.4842. Thus, the range of EUR/USD rate fluctuation for the recent month increased from 400 points to 665 points, which is 66%.
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