With rumors flying that Google Maps Street View may be moving indoors to give us views inside of businesses, I had to share this gem of a video brought to my attention by Mashable. Awesome!
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Interesting data published by eMarketer and Borrell Associates today showing the dramatic growth of online coupons during 2009. Borrell estimated that $8.3 Billion in online coupons were redeemed in the U.S. in 2009 and that the number will more than double to $22 Billion by 2014.
This isn't surprising. For a growing segment of consumers, online coupons are easier to discover, easier to share, and more convenient to redeem, and easier to track that their offline counterparts.
For these reasons, I believe that the growth will only accelerate and will likely exceed Borrell's estimates. In Q1, we will be making it even easier for users of CloudProfile to promote special offers and coupons directly from CloudProfile that are then syndicated widely across the web for maximum exposure.
Happy new year! During the past two weeks I've been mostly offline for the first time in many years. About half of the time celebrating the holidays with family, taking our annual ski trip, and getting ready for the coming arrival of our 2nd child. The other time has been heads down devoted to some really amazing things that we will be rolling out as part of CloudProfile in the coming weeks.
These are exciting times, and I wanted to say happy new year and thank you to the thousands of businesses who have helped us to ramp up CloudProfile and begin to shape it into the best platform for small businesses to manage their web presence, get found, and engage with their customers online.
Stay tuned for lots of updates in the coming weeks!
-Alex
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