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Q3 2011 Internet Ad Revenue Increased by 22% : IAB

bTrendAd — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:32:58 +0000

Internet ad revenue is increasing year by year; companies are promoting their business online for boosting their sales revenue. Growth of Internet ad revenue in US was excellent for third quarter with 7.88 billion dollars. The growth rate for third quarter is 22%, which is more than last year same quarter revenue.

International Advertisement Bureau (IAB) presented the report on international online advertisement spending. As per the November report, internationally online ad revenue for the third quarter of 2011grew 2.7% more than in 2010.

The president and CEO of IAB said that brand marketers found the things where most of the customers spend time, people spent more time online so they are target to those customers to increasing their online promotions. An official from Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP said, behind the online promotions growth is that peoples’ spending on Internet is increasing, so digital media advertising is in more in demand now.

Job Title Makes Big Difference in Deciding Car Insurance Premiums

bTrendAd — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:32:32 +0000

Job titles are affecting the insurance policy holders, as these titles make a big difference in the car insurance quotes that are offered. Recently a report by BBC, says that a person appearing with two job titles saw a big difference in his car premiums.

Richard Alvin, a trained journalist and also a Group Managing Director of a publishing company, has put his job descriptions in a website for car insurance quotes. When he first put his job title as journalist, the website gave him quotes for the price of £800, and some sites have not even gave him a right price. Later he kept his job title as Group Managing Director, then he was shocked to see policies that are just under £500.

So the small changes in the wording, of same man, the same car is saving 40%. This is because insurance companies feel risky in giving policy to the people who work in media and entertainment. The same case with the barristers, where he end up paying £459 for a policy that would cost a publican £294 for the same car. This ensures that the categories that subscribers have to use for assessing motor insurance quotes as far as their job is concerned reflect the real world.

Occupation is a key rating factor for insurance provider in determining the premium that is to be charged. This difference in price is also based on statistical models and past experiences. The risk for the people in the occupation of building, electrician, sales etc all have much potential to use the car for their work or have to travel long distances. This increases risk and also premium. This major issue is mostly seen in UK, where all the risky professionals are facing high car insurance premiums.

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Trends in U.S Financial Service Industry

bTrendAd — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:46:25 +0000

An understanding of trends is useful for the deal makers seeking opportunities from financial services market. These trends in financial services offer the world’s leading bankers, lenders, brokers and insurers the data-driven insights that are needed to guide their strategic digital marketing decisions.

The U.S financial sector was in turmoil in 2007 due to the wide recession in the world economy. Many of the new policies that have taken by the effects of recession are directed towards financial institutions. Let us know the trends in the US financial service industry contributing to the value added or total gross domestic product and the distribution of this income between the shareholders and the labors.

The “value added” of the financial sector measures the value of the services provided by this sector to the overall economy. Shareholder income is the leftover income of value added after covering for labor costs, corporate tax, and investment expenditure. The shareholder income decreased dramatically during the early 1960′s followed by a two decade stagnation. Later it experienced an unprecedented growth from the mid-1990′s to the present. By 2007, this share had risen to twice its previous high point.

Perhaps the most interesting point is that the labor share for financial corporations have rose in the financial crisis. It increased by 44% in mid-2007, reaching a record high by the end of 2008. Labor compensation did not change much while value added declined drastically. The U.S. financial sector has increased substantially during the past five decades. Growth between the years 1995-2006 certainly led to high shareholder returns, whereas, labor compensation returns in the financial sector were also dramatically high at the onset of the financial crisis.

Changing Trends in the Mobile Phone Usage

bTrendAd — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:46:18 +0000

Using of mobile phone is a very old trend. In those days, mobile phone was simply used for communication purpose. But in the present days, mobile user is using mobile phone for various purposes.

In 1990, there were 21 cellphones out of 1000 people. The number grew to 683 cellphones for every 1000 people by the end of the year 2005, and this number increased very fast and it reached to 946 mobile phones for every 1000 people. It will reach more 110% at an average of the population, because now every one is having more than 1 mobile phone.

In the past days it was difficult to carry camera, Mp3 player and a cell phone for an individual. To give flexibility for mobile user many mobile manufacturing companies integrated these features in a mobile phone like Mp3 player, digital camera, etc.

To meet the modern generation needs, mobile companies are providing different features in the mobile phone, such as Wi Fi technology, faster Internet web browser, 4G & 3G technologies and video calling, etc,.

In past days, cellphones were used only for the voice communication, later it is used for the voice and Non voice(SMS) purposes. But now most of the users are using mobile phones for various reasons, such as Internet access on mobile phone, for entertainment purpose, to make video calling, online chat, and so on.

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BMW Recalling 151,000 Units in US for Repair

bTrendAd — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:17:06 +0000

In US auto market, BMW is recalling their models for repairing. They introduced their vehicles into the market with faulty fitted fuel pumps. These defects may reduce the engine performance and result in loss of power of steering and brakes. As per the available information, BMW is recalling nearly around 151,000 units to repair.

They are recalling first few brands which are equipped with twin-turbo engine models, like MY2007-MY2010 335i, MY 2008-2010 135i, 535i, X6, Xdrive35, MY2009-2010 Z4 Roadster, sports utilities, Strive 35i and many. The company said, it requires new replaces of fuel pumps of around 40,000 vehicles. Here, they are replacing high pressure fuel pumps and updating the software developments of the vehicle.

Second recall is for normally aspirated inline six-cylinder MY2008 X5 sports utilities which will be replaced with low pressured fuel pumps.

They explained the fuel pump failure symptoms like, “engine will stop suddenly while running and the driver will loose the assistance of car steering and breaking and sometimes both.”

BMW is requesting the vehicle owners to get further information from their relationship centers and relationship services through emails or phone calls.

13 Million New Car Sales are Expected in December, 2011: JD Power

bTrendAd — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:06:15 +0000

US auto makers are enjoying the good market response with increasing number of unit sales in the year 2011. Total number of expecting sales including retail and fleet is nearly around 13.4 million units for the end of December 2011, which is more than the lost year expected sales. JD power and LMC automotive said that, 2011 is the positive year for US auto makers.

Jeff Schuster of LMC automotive said, in US lighter vehicles sales are very strong, these are important at calculating total number of unit sales in this year. Automakers are hoping better sales growth for 2012 similar to the sales during the end of 2011.

JD power and LMC automakers estimated the annual US auto sales for 2011 to be 13.4 million units which is more than the forecast value of 2010 (12.5 million). On the research base, retail sales in 2011 had overtaken 1 million sales after 2009 August.

In the North America, light vehicle sales are increasing very strongly, this market experienced the light vehicle sales growth by 9%. North America sold out 1million units of vehicles at the end of 2011. US Automakers are expecting the same sales encouragement for their models in the next year also.

Skoda Recorded 16.8% Of World Sales Growth for September, 2011

bTrendAd — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:03:12 +0000

Skoda motors created a record with its continuous sales growth since first nine months of this year. It has recorded 16.8% of world sales growth for September, 2011. The number of units which Skoda delivered in between January to September, 2011 is 664,800 units which is more than the last year deliveries (569.000 vehicles) during the same year. Skoda sold 81,200 units for September, 2011 which is more than the last year sales 75,800 units (September, 2010).

The officials from Skoda have said that Skoda is continuing its fast sales track this year. Their continuous perfect sales growth shape has reflected their global performance. The models Skoda is introducing currently are taking initiative for future growth of the business also.

Skoda sold good number of units in the domestic market with 5,100 units for September, 2011. Skoda motors has gained a good response at Central, Eastern and Western European countries like Croatia (recorded sales growth of 85.9%), Romania (recorded sales growth of 9.6%), Hungary (recorded sales growth of 8.9%), Ukraine (recorded sales growth of 7.1%), Great Britain (recorded sales growth of 33.2%), Switzerland (recorded sales growth of 27.9%), Russia (recorded sales growth of 63.1%), India recorded a sales growth of 37.5%) and Norway (recorded sales growth of 27.7%).

GM Sales Showed 20% Growth in US Market for September, 2011

bTrendAd — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:47:37 +0000

General Motors recorded its sales growth of 20%, which has made it stand at the third position in terms of sales growth for this year. It is behind the Chrysler (27%) first position and Nissan (25%) second position. GM got the positive response from the US consumers, it sold 207,145 units of vehicles including cars, trucks, vans and sports utilities for September, 2011 . GM stands again in the first place in the category of total number of unit sales.

GMC brand is the top sales growth performer among the many GM brands. This brand has recorded a sales growth of 28% for September, 2011 which is more than last year. Yukon XL and Yukon are the top performers in the GMC which have the sales growth rate of 67% and 44.8% respectively. GMC model, Sierra sold 13,904 units for September month, Terrain model sold 6,910 units and Acadia model sold 5,287 units for September, 2011.

GM Chevrolet is the second largest selling model in US auto market which has increased its sales growth by 22% and sold 114,611 units for September, 2011. Chevrolet has also sold out the trucks and SUVs. The top performed model in Chevy is Silverado pickup vehicle which has sold out 43,698 vehicles showing 36% sales growth. Chevy’s New Cruze was the second in terms of sales performance by selling 18,097 vehicles and Equinox is the third performer with 15,497 units sold. Buick model stand third in terms of sales growth by recording a growth of 6% and selling 13,599 units.

Top car manufacturers GM stands at top position with number of unit sales and stand at third position in terms of sales growth.

Alertra Offers 30-Day Free Website Monitoring Trial

bTrendAd — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:17:16 +0000

Oklahoma, United States – Alertra, a leading provider of Internet server monitoring and alerting services, announced that it is offering a 30-day free website monitoring trial.

With Alertra’s 30-day free website monitoring trial, get notified when your site goes down. The trial package includes monitoring websites, e-mail servers, routers and any other servers or hardware connected to the Internet.

A spokesperson for Alertra said, “In today’s competitive digital world, making sure that the website is always live and performing is more critical than ever to succeed. We continuously monitor the health of websites, servers and routers from various locations around the world and notify business owners or webmasters whenever the site goes down.”

“We want to make it easy for businesses to sample this service. There is no need to install or maintain software to experience the benefits of website monitoring. We’re excited for people to try us and see our service at work” he added.

In addition to free 30-day trial, they are offering two other services for free. First is quick and easy Spot Check. Enter a URL you’d like to check and you will get a report back with some basic information on the performance from various places around the world.

The other one is a demo account. This provides limited access to Alertra’s control panel interface for remote server monitoring.

You can make use of all the features of the service without any obligation. You need not provide any credit card information to sign up for the trial – no need to worry about automatic billing after the trial period! There is no obligation to upgrade to a paid account. You can upgrade only if you are satisfied with the service during the trial period.

Sign up for the free trial online at https://www.alertra.com/adduser

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Stillwater, OK 74076
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Website: www.alertra.com

About Alertra: Established April, 2000, Alertra has become a leading provider of Internet server monitoring and alerting services. Our U.S. headquarters is located in the historic W.E. Going (Town Center) building in downtown Stillwater, Oklahoma. Alertra monitors the availability and performance of Internet-connected devices. We provide timely alert notifications and access to detailed reporting. Since April, 2000, we’ve provided monitoring services to more than 25,000 businesses and other organizations. Although most are based in the United States, a significant number are located in the United Kingdom, and in more than 30 other countries. Our customers range in size from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

BMW Sales Top in US for 2011

bTrendAd — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:50:37 +0000

BMW topped in luxury car segment in the US for 2011, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota motors are following. BMW and Mercedes-Benz both are tough competitors themselves for occupying the top position in luxury segment finally BMW reported highest sales for last year.

BMW reported its sales in US for 2011 with 13% sales growth to 247,907 vehicles and Mercedes-Benz reported same percentage of sales growth sold 245,231 units. Then Lexus (198,552 units)and Toyota placed at third position.

Edmunds,com said, BMW increased the customers incentives around 200 dollars per vehicles in December, Mercedes-Benz stabilizing its incentives for this year. BMW got the benefits from mini branded models its 5 models reported the sales for 2011 was 305,418 units with 15% sales growth than 2010 sales.

In US market BMW performed very strongly it sold 18% of total vehicles here and then in Germany and China it sold 17.8% and 14% of total vehicles.

Evan Drury the analyst of Edmunds.com said, there was a tough competition in between deal-setter and trend-setter for 2011.

GM Again Leads the World Car Market for 2011

bTrendAd — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:28:45 +0000

US number one car manufacturing company GM was once again crowned with world top sales performer in the world. It has taken the top position as global sales performer place after three years. GM has come back officially on 26th January with the 2011 sales with 9 million vehicles, which was the top digit after 2007.

Toyota motors snatched the world top seller crown from GM in 2008, then after GM unable to get back due to recession, but it has been increasing its sales year to year from 2009 to get back its world top performance with in three years.

Mr. Jeremy Anwyl of the automotive website Edmunds.com said, GM is introducing the competitive products consistently maintaining. Its encouraged the performance of GM in the world market.

The recession in US greatly affected the US car manufacturers but GM and Chrysler both strategically reached their expectations for 2011.

GM’s top performing and most competing model Cruize is performing well and it affected the sales of Toyota’s model. James Cain, spokes person of GM said, we came with better performance car than other manufacturers cars. Ours Chevy Cruize is elected as a best selling model in US for 2011.

GM joint ventures also helped to got the world leading sales, joint venture in China increasing the GM sales performance. Its reported world sales with 9 million units including China market sales 2,547,171 units for 2011.

Auto Sales in US and Canada to Increase in 2012

bTrendAd — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:16:10 +0000

Auto sales in US and Canada reported positive growth, in US and Canada car makers received good response from the car uses. New cars and used cars sales increased in January, 2012. Canada reported its sales growth for January with 15% and US reported 11% which is more than last year sales. Canada auto industry sold 1.8 million units and US industry sold 14.2 million units for January month of 2012.

Mr. Kenrick Jordan, senior economist of BMO capital markets said, ‘We expected the sales for January 2012 sales in US at 14.3 million units and in Canada 1.59 million units; we are happy because the auto industry reached expectations.’ Vehicles sales has been increasing with the advantages of increasing vehicle life time and improving economical growth of people.

Mr. Maryann Keller, president of Keller and association explains some cogent reasons are increasing the consumers vehicle purchases. Vehicle affordability is increasing more now a days, auto industry getting benefits from low interest rates and low price increases of vehicles. In US and Canada new cars demand is increasing more. Car makers have the hopes this growth will continue for future days also.

GM Auto Sales Down for January, 2012 in US

bTrendAd — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:57:24 +0000

US auto sales for January, 2012 increased. All brands received positive sales growth but US top car manufacturers GM received very low negative sales growth. GM reported its sales for January with 1,67,962 units to fell down its sales growth with 6%.

Mr. Don Johnson, voice president of US sales operations said, Once again Chevrolet drove our performance, our new models especially fuel efficient models performed well in the market. Chevrolet passenger cars reported 13% sales growth for January and GM’s passenger cars sales also increased at 3%. fuel efficient small and compact car sales increased with 30% in January.

GM’s cross over sales decreased by18% and trucks including full-sized pickups, vans, SUV sales were also dropped 6%.

Johnson said, we will go to auto market with new models, better dealership experiences and reinforcement strategies, which are beneficial to us for getting positive sales performance in 2012. GM has the aggressive plan for new products in 2012.

Mahindra & Mahindra Launched Its New XUV500

bTrendAd — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:49:32 +0000

Mahindra & Mahindra revealed its new SUV(sports utility vehicle) model, Mahindra XUV500 car on 28th September, 2011. They revealed all the details about the car features, specifications and price details. The officials from Mahindra & Mahindra said that, they are introducing this model in Australia in the upcoming six months and also in south and central America.

The car is available in the domestic market at Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi and Pune. They are offering the model in the Indian market at a target price between Rs.10.8 to Rs 11.95 Lakhs. This new model is supposed to represent the company’s ever growing global aspirations.

This XUV500 model car comes with the 2.2L common rail diesel engine which provides maximum power aspiration with 140bhp along with the top torque of 33 kgm. This model comes with the six speed manual and automatic transmission facilities. This car comes with the other features like SRS airbags, electronic stability program(ESP) and anti lock breaking program(ABP). This car is expected to be the competitor of Skoda and Tata SUV models.

Skoda Plans to Launch 4 Variants of Fabia in Indian Market

bTrendAd — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:39:56 +0000

Skoda India introduced its four variants of Fabia models on 23rd September, 2011. They are introducing widest range of variants in a single brand and are introducing models called active, active plus, ambition and ambition Plus which come in both petrol and diesel range.

According to the source from the company, they are introducing these variants based on the customers feedback and their aim is to create the value added support to customers. They are offering new range of brands with technically advanced features and facilities.

These cars come at reasonable prices. The petrol version cars comes with 1.2L engine. The prices of the four variants are, active is available at Rs 4.39L, active plus comes at 4.59L, ambition comes at Rs 4.85L and ambition plus is available at Rs 4.99L. Similarly diesel range cars also come with 1.2L engine. These are priced at Rs 5.46L, Rs.5.66L, Rs. 5.9L and Rs 6.8L for active, active plus, ambition and ambition plus respectively.

Mahindra Launches New Bolero

bTrendAd — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:28:34 +0000

Mahindra & Mahindra launched its new Bolero model into the Indian market. The new bolero is replacing the existing one. The sources from the company have said that, the Bolero continuing its top position in SUV sales for the past 5 years. They are also expecting the new bolero too gets the same response from the Indian car users. They are giving assurance on the durability of the vehicle. They are hoping that it gives a long product life cycle. Moreover, they have designed the model to suit the youth also.

The new Bolero is more powerful and more efficient, Bolero is powered with the 2.5L m2DICR diesel engine which delivers 63 horsepower and 195 Nm of torque. The new Bolero is more fuel economy vehicle, it comes with 16kmpl mileage and micro hybrid system.

New Bolero comes in attractive style, it comes with great front bumpers, new headlights with integrated indicators. The interiors are also modified with dual-tone seats, better finish, dual tone dashboard and new A/C vents. The price of the new Bolero is also very economical. It is priced Rs. 6.33L which is just Rs.6000 more than the old model. Mahindra is expecting nearly one lakh unit sales in this year.

Marvist WebSolutions Launches a New Website

bTrendAd — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:15 +0000

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh – Marvist WebSolutions, a pioneer in the field of Internet marketing consulting and services launches a new website. The website is larger and presents the services offered in detail and also showcases the testimonials from the 600 clients that marvist has helped with its services.

The new website, at Marvist.co.in is easy to navigate and designed to facilitate users get information easily. The new site design is better in navigation, accessibility and appearance.

A spokesperson for Marvist WebSolutions said, The new website has a fresh feel to appeal to a wide audience. When redesigning the site, we kept it simple with user friendly features.”

“The site is designed to represent the developments and growth of the organization. The redesigned site reflects the company’s growth in the last 6 years. We used CMS based site to make quick changes to data” he added.

What is perhaps the most new feature of the site is its ‘Clients’ section, where one can find the customer testimonials which speak about the marketing expertise of Marvist WebSolutions.

The ‘Resource Centre’ offers visitors access to a vast source of insights and expertise on various topics such as Search Engine Marketing, Online Marketing, Website Management and Small Business Management created by team of industry experts.

The new website has a detailed section on careers. It is very helpful for the candidates who want to be part of Marvist.

For further details, please contact:
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About Us:
Marvist WebSolutions is a division of Marvist Consulting Pvt. Ltd. that offers Internet Marketing Consulting Services to its clients. The services offered by Marvist WebSolutions are in the fields of Web Marketing Strategy and Consulting, Search Engine Optimization, Website Promotion and Pay Per Click. Marvist WebSolutions is a rapidly growing offshore internet marketing and Marketing Research Company based out of Hyderabad, India. It serves clients worldwide. The company started its operations in April 2005 and offers strategic consulting as well as tactical marketing services through offshore model.

Mercedes Comes With Smaller-Luxury Car

bTrendAd — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:30:37 +0000

Germany-based Mercedes-Benz, will be introducing new smaller-luxury car in the Indian auto market to attract the middle class consumers and get back into luxury car market. They had a good sales response in the Indian market in 2009 and 2010. Mercedes-Benz is making its first attempt of giving luxury cars to the middle class consumers.

Previously Mercedes-Benz occupied the Indian luxury car market with 60% in 2009. But, in the year 2010 it decreased their share percentage by 34%. Mercedes-Benz has 36 showrooms in India presently and they are planning to increase the number by 15 for every year.

Growth in the luxury car market can be attributed to higher disposable incomes, better roads and aspirations. Mercedes-Benz India will be assembling new compact models including small SUV and sedan that will attract more lower duty. The car makers have to play only 10 percent role in the market.

Part of the X1’s success is the lower sticker price. The model starts at 2.2 million rupees which is less than half the 4.9 million-rupee sticker price for Mercedes’ cheapest SUV.

Toyota Investing 1,650 Crores for Increasing Productivity

bTrendAd — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:42:28 +0000

Toyota recently announced that they would be investing 1650 crores for increasing their productivity. They are planning to produce 1 lakh vehicles per year.

According to the statement released by the Toyota company, they have the plan to produce 3,10,000 vehicles for 2013 which will be possible with 898 crores. Toyota motors said it will be offering new employment opportunities also. The existing facility at Bangalore is extending their production capacity from 1.5 lakh to 2.1 lakh for 2012.

The officials have said that they are increasing the production capacity to keep up with the increasing demand for their products. The sales of existing models Etios Liva and Etios has been encouraging and are gearing up for future growth. They are launching the new cars in the small car segment for which they already got the good response from the consumers with 4000 advance bookings already done. They are coming back with Etios sedan in December 2011.

In addition, the company will also begin transmissions for manufacturing Alto and Etios models in 2013. They are also planning to expand their market by designing cars that suit the Indian market.

GM Launches New Brand Called ‘Sonic’

bTrendAd — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:36:08 +0000

In 2008, GM has launched the ‘Sonic’ with an intention to make a profitable sub compact car, for the people of United States rather than for low-wage countries. This launch was done before the company got bankrupt and was bailed out by federal government.

Sonic is the littlest, most fuel efficient and conventionally powered vehicle of GM. It is alos the first subcompact car from GM after Chevrolet Corvette launched 40 years ago, which has tried to build its home market. Chevrolet Aveo is the next smallest subcompact car being manufactured by GM in its South Korean subsidiary.

The sonic is lighter, less costly, more fuel-efficient and has windshield pillars made of high strength stee, with an ultra thin film applied to prevent rust. It weighs 400 pounds less than the next biggest car GM has manufactured. It has 1.4-.liter turbocharged engine which delivers the best gas mileage in the company’s fleet.