Showing posts with label value. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Twitter = $1,000,000,000?

According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter is close to securing almost $100 million in funding. The deal values the company at about one billion dollars.

This scares me. Why? It feels a lot - A LOT! - like the turn of the century. Twitter is cool, but it has yet to generate any money or make known, in any concrete way, what its plan for revenue-generation is.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

NEWSFLASH - People are watching their money!

Old story - A number of years ago, I helped a furniture remanufacturer with key messaging. They thought they sold on value; turns out the "green" issue was their customers' hot button with value a close second.

They're in luck because, according to Mark Penn (about whom I've written before), "green" is no longer increasing heart rates; value is.

In an incredibly long-winded piece, Penn explains that consumers now are watching their pennies and, yeah, being green is still cool, but saving green is where it's at.

I guess that makes it official.