A Very Merry Mobile Month – Thinks Out Loud Episode 53

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A Very Merry Mobile Month Headlines and Show Notes

• Paid Search Spend Surges 27%, Mobile Grabs 40% Thanksgiving, Black Friday Spend
• Black Friday – A Cautionary Tale From An Online Retailer
• Amazon Drones: Amazon Unveils Futuristic Delivery Plan – CBS News – CBS News
• Amazon’s Drone Fleet Delivers What Bezos Wants: An Image of Ingenuity – Businessweek
• Amazon’s Drone Plan Is Essentially One Giant Commercial
• How Safe is Your Industry From Amazon?
• Thinks Out Loud Episode 30: The Rise of AGFAM (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) and Everywhere Shopping
• Google plans ‘floating retail store,’ builder says – SFGate
• Want More Web Business Now That It’s All E-commerce? 6 Questions You Must Get Right
• How Hotel Marketers Can Win in an “All E-commerce” World: 3 Steps to Success (Travel Tuesday)
• Why Mobile Will Bring Back Branding – Thinks Out Loud Episode 50

And, as promised, here’s the video from 60 Minutes’ look at Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service:

You can also register to receive a free copy of my special report, “Digital Hotel Marketing in a Multiscreen World,” produced in conjunction with Vizergy, here. While it’s targeted to the hospitality industry specifically, most of the lessons apply across verticals.

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Technical details: Recorded using a Shure SM57 microphone
through a Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB recording interface into Logic Express 9 for the Mac.

Running time: 17m 12s

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