In 1999, Peter Merholz introduced a new word. He contracted the phrase web log to blog, and the online world has never been the same. That year, there were 23 blogs on the internet. Today, over 3 million blogs are written every day.
A few years ago, businesses began hearing the social media hype. Common knowledge said that businesses not on social media would be left behind, so your business got on Facebook and Twitter and you expected sales to go through the roof, but nothing changed. Sales didn’t increase one bit. Were you expecting too much from social media? Was the hype just a marketing scheme created by Mark Zuckerberg? The answers are probably Yes and No, respectively.
No matter what business you’re in, to be successful, you need to advertise. As much as 90% of what one owns—or has ever owned—was purchased because of advertising’s subconscious effects.
Envision this scenario: You need to have your appendix removed or the consequences may be fatal. You can do one of two things:
Internet users have so many reasons to be enraged. We’re all subjected to data mining, fraudulent websites, fake news, auto-play videos, too many APTRDNTBA (abbreviated phrases that really don’t need to be abbreviated), and so much more. Somewhere near the top of that list has to be the annoying interruption that comes in the form of pop-ups, interstitials, and overlays.
