U.S. stock market listings of 2020 which have already been a blockbuster year for IPOs, featuring the likes of record label Warner Music Group, data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, and data warehouse company Snowflake has a new player planning to make the most. Although it’s been hit by Covid-19, AirBnB has the biggest potential to bounce back with its robust model and continuous demand.
Here is a Quick Infographic of AirBnB’s Journey before the IpO
- Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia , Nathan Blecharczyk Put together an AirBed & Breakfast Site in Aug 2008
- March 2009, the AirBnB had 10,000 users and 2,500 listings
- The AirBnBreceived seed money from Sequoia Capital In April’09 followed by a funding round in November 2010 by Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital
- October 2011, Airbnb established its first international office in London
- November 2012, Airbnb launched “Neighborhoods”, a travel guide of 23 cities
- July 2014 AirBnB new logo Belo a symbol of “belonging” with revisions to APP and Website
- Airbnb’s revenue grew more than 80% from 2015 to 2016 and it became a profitable company
- AirBnB made $200M in Profits in 2018 and a $322 Million Loss in 2019
- In April 2020, Airbnb raised $1 billion in another round of funding from private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners.
- AirBnB is aiming to raise around $3 billion in IPO with Approx valuation of $30 Billion
Which are its top competitors:
- Expedia is valued at $12 billion
- Tripadvisor is valued at $3 billion
- Booking.com is valued at $70 billion
Mobile app development jobs are projected to grow substantially in next 10 years.
To be precise there will be 32% growth in Mobile app Job, compared to Computer jobs which will see only 22% growth.
Maximum salary of experienced Mobile app developer is 292,000 USD.
Smartphone yearwise shipments are as follows
2008- 139 Million Handsets
2012- 680 Million Handsets
2017- 1.53 Billion Handsets
2020- 1.56 Billion Handset
Scenario of Mobile APP development
30% of businesses are building mobile apps and expected to grow at swift rate.
42.16% are into web development however, there is a rapid entry into the mobile space with >50% of businesses entering mobile app industry in past 4 years.
1) Socialoomph: SocialOomph contains a plethora of advanced features for effectively automating a wide range of tasks across social media platforms. The app is capable of managing all activities in Twitter, LinkedIn, Plurk, App.net, and Facebook. It will even go as far as handling your blog activity.
2) dlvr.it : Put your Social Media on autopilot. Automatically share news, blogs and photos to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and more.
3) IFTTT : IFTTT helps you do more with the services you love. Connect Amazon Alexa, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Fitbit, Slack, Skype, and hundreds more. It is a free web-based service to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets.An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. For example, an applet may send an e-mail message if the user tweets using a hashtag, or copy a photo on Facebook to a user’s archive if someone tags a user in a photo.
4) Zapier : Zapier is a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use. Zapier provides workflows to automate the use of web applications together.
It is often described as a translator between web APIs.
Zapier workflows can keep data consistent across web applications, such as between Evernote and Dropbox (service).
Individuals can use a visual web page to wire together their favorite apps into “Zaps”, such as Slack and Yammer.
Developers can set up their web APIs for use with Zapier, and open up integration with many other web apps
5) Buffer : Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results.Buffer is a simpler and easier way to schedule posts, track the performance of your content, and manage all your accounts in one place. Buffer supports close to 4 million marketers for digital and social media marketing.
6) Hootsuite : Publish updates, track activity, and analyze results across multiple social networks including Twitter and Facebook.
HootSuite is designed for professionals who want to drive more value from their social media activities: manage campaigns, engage with customers and collaborate internally, all from one secure web and mobile dashboard. Try it free, and choose from three plans tailored to meet your needs.
With HootSuite you can:
● Manage multiple social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Google+
● Streamline team workflow with scheduling and assignment tools
● Track and monitor keywords and mentions
● Measure and analyze social media traffic with the comprehensive social analytics modules
● Invite multiple collaborators to manage social profiles securely
● Access the HootSuite App Directory, a collection of 50+ extensions and applications that can be added to the dashboard for a customized experience
7) Bundlepost : Bundlet Features:
● Easily Queue Content into Bundle Post
● Merge Queued Content with new or existing schedules
● Build My Content Marketing Posts quickly and easily from your company pages, sites and web content
● Add RSS Feed Channels into Bundle Post with a single click
All content you move using the Bundlet can be accessed, edited and scheduled on the Bundle Post Export Table, making your daily browser content discovery even more efficient.
Bundle Post consists of 6 main sections that don’t require direct connection to social networks, browser plugins or RSS readers. Integrated with the Hootsuite social dashboard, days of scheduled content for any social network can be uploaded into your Hootsuite account in minutes.
8) Tweetbeep : TweetBeep is a web Twitter app similar to Google Alerts service but for tweets. You can create alerts for specific words and if these words tweeted, TweetBeep will send you an email alerting you of those tweets. TweetBeep uses exactly the same criteria of Twitter search and you can get an RSS feed for each alert.
9) Postplanner : Post Planner is a system designed to enhance the social media marketing activities and campaigns of any business. Using this software, social media marketers find it easy to manage and share content consistently, and are able to achieve predictable, measurable, and remarkable results with their social media posts, especially on Facebook and Twitter.
A platform created by social media marketers for social media marketers, Post Planner aims to get more engagement and reach on social media in the less amount of time. Every interaction with a user is treated as a data point used in constantly improving the service overall.
10) TwitterFeed has gone out of business.
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From every small website owner to large corporations everyone needs to know basic SEO techniques, which can be used for better digital marketing on search engines.
Here are the 10 simple ways to improve SEO rankings.
1)Conduct a full site audit to determine issues
2)Write for your readers and not just search engines
3)Improve your on page content structure
4)Avoid low quality links sites in favour of sites with higher page rankings
5)Create effective title tags that incorporate your target audience
6)Add your new content to social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon
7)Utilize social sharing buttons on your site
8) Remove any type of duplicated content your site
9)Make sure your URLs contain the keywords for which you are optimizing
10)Consistently add new and relevant content to your site.
Hope this helps,
Every now and then you must be trying new apps for features, productivity improvement or just for fun. But there few apps in mobile universe which pay you money or brownie points for using them.
Here is a Infographic by Topapps.net about the apps which pay you.
Few of them are
Here is a Infographic by Topapps.net about the apps which pay you.
Few of them are
1) Surveys On The Go- Surveys on the Go® is unlike any other survey
application on the market today by paying in cash, not points. They pay from $0.25 to $5 cash for your opinions, usually $1.
2)Gigwalk – Gigwalk is a new way to get paid while building your professional profile. With Gigwalk, you can connect with businesses looking to get local contract work done.
3) Ibotta – Better than Coupons , Get cash back when you buy your favorite brands at your favorite stores. From grocery to electronics and more, ditch the coupons and get paid.
The important components of web design project are Business analysis- recognize objectives, purpose, target audience, content of the website, technical specification.
Then create a formal framework of financials, legal and delivery related work. Project management, research , inspiration, planning,UI/UX.
Then create a formal framework of financials, legal and delivery related work. Project management, research , inspiration, planning,UI/UX.
This infographics show this components in a very visually appealing way
