Time to do some real work
The decline in consumer and business purchasing is depressing search engine marketing. Keyword prices are down by upwards of 30% from the third quarter of 2008; traffic to e-commerce sites is down on both last year and last quarter; and click-through-rates on ad listings are declining. Google stock has been given a SELL rating for the first time, ebay is loosing visitors by the million and Technorati has just laid off six “high performers” and cut pay for the rest by at least 10%.
The credit crisis has arrived and it’s clear the Internet economy is not immune.
When affiliate schemes provide limited returns, banks and investors avoid your calls, and credit card limits get reduced - what do you do?
I suppose you stop wasting time on social networks, stop playing online games during office hours, put off reading up on the latest tech news and blog post and get on with some real work.
… now where did I put that old copy of the Yellow pages?