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Originally Posted by slapass
The US recession has been over for a while.
"In a 1975 New York Times article, economic statistician Julius Shiskin suggested several rules of thumb for defining a recession, one of which was "two down consecutive quarters of GDP"."
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It's coming back to you very soon.
The turmoil in the EU is going to bring it back.
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This is my prediction, for what it's worth. Credit will get harder to find and keep. Credit card companies will be more diligent about who they let run up big over drafts. This coupled with the job losses and slow downs will mean less money is spent online.
The upside will be companies who currently advertise on sites where the theme is give it away to get traffic to sell advertising space are going to find advertisers very hard to find and scrutinizing what they spend is worth it. People advertising on the Net to just get "branding" are going to be looking at the cost.
They will not care if a site has 1,000,000 visitors a day if only 10 buy something.
This will mean free sites, that are not free to run, will need to also need watch their costs.
Those who cut their costs to under their income will have a better chance of surviving.
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A. Well CC card companies did tighten up and unemployment soared. Online spending increased, so wrong there. Except in porn.
B. Advertising on Tubes is now funding free porn, which is hitting sales. Still a lot of webmasters forums have closed because no one is buying ads to brand themselves.
C. Yes people are now even more aware of the ROI on advertising.
D. Are there less people running free sites today than in the past?
E. Was always correct.