Thank you all for an amazing and absolute rocking year! What a ride! A few highlights (in no particular order): Summer Sales Symposium, excellent November Conference, webinars and podcasts, new courses, successful in-person & virtual summits, membership growth, and a thousand behind the scenes items including the new format to… Read More »Thank you IBBA!
This year we saw Google get dethroned from the number one spot and replaced by TikTok. Let’s start with our Top Domains Ranking and 2021 brought us a very interesting duel for the Number 1 spot in our global ranking. Google.com (which includes Maps, Translate, Photos, Flights, Books, and News,… Read More »TikTok At The Top
As outlined by Statista: According to Statista’s GCS 2021 Holiday Special, Christmas music is topping the list of holiday must-haves. 49 percent of Americans consider the right tunes an essential part of the holiday season, the question of which Christmas songs are “the right ones” notwithstanding. Christmas movies, think “Home Alone”,… Read More »Associated With Christmas
Seller-market sentiment is back to levels reported before the pandemic. Market confidence is further reflected in the final sale prices sellers received in Q3. In fact, sellers in the $5 million to $50 million sector realized, on average, a sale price that was 106% of benchmark. Overall, across all sectors,… Read More »Seller Sentiment, Q4 2019 to Q3 2021
Deal activity continued strong in Q3, driven by the economic recovery, high levels of dry powder, and the favorable cost of debt. Multiples have returned to pre-pandemic levels in most market segments.In terms of new deal flow, advisors generally reported scores of 3.5 or better, on a 1-5 Likert scale.… Read More »Change In New Clients By Size In The Last 3 Months
One of the key components of Lithium batteries are on the rise, this is one reason battery manufactures and EV manufactures are looking for other materials to make batteries out of. as outline in Axios: A key input to the batteries that power electric vehicles and smartphones has more than… Read More »EV Batteries Material On The Rise
“It’s easy to forget that life is the greatest gift of all,” Karlie Perrin wrote in her novel, The Gift. Karli Perrin is an English Language and Linguistics graduate from Manchester, England. She is a lover of books and was inspired to write her debut novel back in 2013. She is… Read More »Monday Mojo Karli Perrin
IPO’s are heating up as we are heading into 2022. As Outlined by Axios: After being at the center of the meme stock trade, Reddit filed paperwork with the SEC for its own IPO late Wednesday. It’s hoping for a $15 billion-plus valuation, according to Reuters. What to watch: A… Read More »IPO Activity Up
As we keep importing more goods traffic is going through the roof. As outlined by Axios: Consumer demand continues to push U.S. ports to new limits, Axios’ Hope King writes. The push to get goods onshore now comes from retailers wanting to get ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday… Read More »Port Traffic At Record Levels
The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.8 percent in November, seasonally adjusted, this is usually a forecast of consumer price increases coming in the future. As outlined by Axios: An index of wholesale prices rose 9.6% compared to a year ago, its largest annual gain since the government… Read More »November Producer Price index