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The economy is recovering, and entrepreneurialism has played a large role in helping it along. One of the most interesting parts of this recovery, however, is the emergence of new types of industry. Businesses have found all new niches to fill, and seven industries in particular have shown substantial growth in 2013. (Infographic)
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Only 44% of the top 25 online retailers responded to customer service requests from social media within 24 hours.
Social media and the internet have made it much easier for people to vent about bad service to a potentially large audience. If you make a customer unhappy these days you can count on their other 5,000-some friends hearing about it, too. Twenty-five percent of people who have a negative customer experience share their thoughts on social networks. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Which industries get the most customer service complaints?”
Funeral costs have increased a staggering 827 percent in the last 50 years.
Une Belle Vie has released this helpful infographic on the true cost of death. The infographic illustrates how much funerals, memorials, cremations and other death care options costs have risen from 1960 to 2010. It also provides the breakdown cost between burials and cremations and their impact on the environment. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “How much does it really cost to die? You might be surprised”
Social content is targeted and scrutinized during a divorce.
Social media has been purported to cause something that it doesn’t. Divorce is a perfect example of this. Because the divorce rate for people under 50 hasn’t demonstrably changed with the advent of social media, social media isn’t causing divorce.
Continue reading… “How social media impacts divorce: Infographic”
What is your favorite coffee and what does it say about you?
People are always tying to figure out how to label themselves. We are going to take a closer look at what your choice of coffee says about you, and how you can subconsciously tell people you are more sophisticated (or whatever you want to say about yourself). (Infographic)
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Self-driving cars aren’t that far off in the future.
The explosion of innovation is expected to get even more profound in the the years to come as the technology inside cars accelerates. Check out the infographic after the break that shows the near-future of car tech, revealing what might happen in the next five years.
Continue reading… “Self-driving cars are right around the corner (Infographic)”
What music works best with your particular job?
What music you listen to at home may depend on your mood, what you’re doing, what you’re planning to do and who you’re with. When you listen to music at work, you should also take into account what you do for a living. (Infographic)
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Online shopping is the way of the future, and retailers across the globe must keep in step with that trend. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “A look at the digital future of global retail marketing”
Apple’s WWDC 2013
The conference that Apple hosted in San Francisco last week for 6,000 developers was a face-off between CEO Tim Cook and Jony Ive, his Senior VP for design. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Apple’s WWDC 2013 as seen through 417,336 tweets”
Colors affect our moods, feelings, even our behaviors.
Different colors evoke different emotions in all of us, and marketers have been taking advantage of this for years. But which colors spur which emotions? (Infographic)
Continue reading… “The psychology of color and branding”
The average person has to remember 15 passwords.
Over half of us say we can’t remember all our passwords. That makes sense, given that almost a third of all companies require their employees to remember six or more of them.
Continue reading… “The problem with password proliferation (Infographic)”
There were 80,000 drug and alcohol overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database. The database, maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, keeps a tally of all the deaths listed on certificates nationwide. They’re classified by the ICD-10 medical coding reference system.
Continue reading… “The drugs that actually kill Americans: Infographic”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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