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Consumers are savvier than ever. They’re also much less likely to be swayed by traditional, in-your-face advertising and commercials. They want, instead, to be entertained and engaged by marketers. In short, consumers just want to have fun. Marketers and e-commerce retailers are, therefore, looking at ways to provide enjoyment and at the same time sell products.
Because of power tools like marketing automation, marketers are able to contribute to revenue in a very measurable way. Expectations are high because of this capability — like salespeople, marketers are now accountable for making a direct revenue contribution to the top line. They are being asked to show exactly how that contribution has occurred and will occur In the future.
2010 saw many large retailers experiment with online video. According to eMarketer, nearly three quarters of all U.S. retailers featured video on their sites in Q4 of 2010, which is up 55 percent from a year earlier. They created homepage videos, how-to videos and select product videos on their websites and other channels such as YouTube.
The current anti-cybersquatting model of preregistering 25,000 domain name combinations to surround a master brand name identity and avoid possible cybersquatting will slowly fade away. Cybersquatting came about due to the original easy access of no-questions-asked, cheap domain name registrations. New gTLDs are not as open as ".net," ".info," ".biz" or ".me" but are rather closed and more specific.
Why would someone invest $187,000 for single name application with ICANN plus
another few hundred-thousand dollars on related costs to acquire a new gTLD
domain root system? Simple, the real motivation will be to declare global-image cyberwarfare and to create global market domination under a name identity.