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With the Facebook IPO quickly approaching (any day now), everyone is trying to figure out whether or not they should invest, or if this Facebook thing will really last. There have been a number of Infographics on this topic, but this one from MBA Online provides a clear explanation and layout detailing everything behind the IPO everyone's taking about.
If you are like me, you subscribe to a number of industry reports that deliver trends and benchmarks around marketing and sales. There is definitely one thing that these reports all have in common, Video. Marketers are projected to start incorporating video into their core efforts this year. But what does this all mean? Does it mean filming more videos? Or, does it mean optimizing existing content? In my opinion, I think we will see "video series" bypass the "blog" by the end of 2013.
One of the hottest trends so far this year is Big Data. What is Big Data? There are many definitions, but to most, its all that application transaction data sitting in a big database taking up storage capacity. What seems overwhelming, is actually statistics that tells the story of your company and customers. There are more and more solutions entering the market that give enterprises big and small the tools to extract meaningful information from all this data, because after all, Big Data means Big Opportunity.
I don't know if my dorm room was quite like the ones portrayed in this infographic, but I was definitely a techie. The folks over at Course Hero have done a fine job of detailing what technology and appliances one would find if we looked in to the dorm room of those entrepreneurs that have created world changing companies like Apple, Facebook, and many small start ups we're benefiting from today.
I've noticed lately that the team here at DS has been focusing on Infographic content because it is more engaging and such a simple way to display data. Since there are so many great infographics to choose from, I thought I would choose the 10 best focused on B2B Business.
Hey SMBs how you spending your money on Social Media? Historically small to medium-sized businesses have spent more on advertising than on marketing. Obviously things have changed. Facebook is proving to be the most beneficial, showing the most ROI, with YouTube in last place. This infographic goes into further detail.
There is a high probability that you now watch movies and TV shows via the web, using services like Hulu and Netflix. When was the last time you purchased or rented a DVD? 2012 will be there year that online video will surpass alternative legacy channels. This infographic from onlinedregees.com goes into further detail.
Marketing online and via social media channels can bring great success online as well as offline. Brick and Mortars are finally leveraging what social can bring, but are they taking a hard look at online promotion and what marketing automation can bring to their businesses? This infographic by KISSmetrics goes deeper.
This infographic by ClickSoftware is titled "The State of Customer Service," but it should really say customer success. What is the different between customer service and customer success? Are they two of the same? The infographic gives you a snapshot of the customer service industry today as it relates to enterprise software.

