Press
Release - In 2006, Energy Issues Take a Front Burner on the World Stage FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Read about this prediction and many others in Mitchell
Levy's 'hot off the press' book "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2006".
Levy incorporates predictions from 50 executives on what will happen in 2006.
Cupertino, CA - November 15, 2005
Will the #1 issue in the world
be energy in 2006 and will security and privacy issues raise their heads as key
issues facing corporations and individuals? Mitchell Levy, Author of the 'hot
off the press' book "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2006" says
that energy, security, and privacy issues will be hot topics for 2006. He also
has eight other predictions worth exploring. In his last year's book "Happy
About Knowing What to Expect in 2005", accurate predictions included:
- Google at $300 six months prior to hitting the mark and
- Gas prices at $3 eight months prior to hitting
the mark
The
Top Ten Trends for 2006 are: -
Energy issues take a front burner on the world stage.
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The
Internet's democratization effect expands to traditional media.
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Marketing expenditures and activities continue
to shift to the Internet.
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China's
continued growth significantly affects world commerce.
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Outsourcing
continues to expand to other sectors of the economy.
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Services
continue to play a bigger role in Western economies.
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Usage
and proliferation of mobile commerce expands.
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Adoption
of VOIP continues.
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Employer/employee
relationships strengthen for the first time in years.
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Security
and privacy issues raise their heads again. Each
trend is supplemented with a number of predictions from leading industry experts.
Here are some interesting predictions from this year's book: - "Office
in your phone. Millions will be carrying mobile devices that do more than voice,
email and text. Videos, web conferencing, unified messaging, powerpoint presentations,
mobile access to any content using infobots, and more are coming."
Rip Gerber, CMO, GM-Ecommerce, Intellisync Corporation - "Countries
as Brands. In 2006 countries will start overtly branding themselves to increase
export visibility. Made in Luxembourg? You bet."
Andrew Greenberg,
CEO, Greenberg Brand Strategy - "Younger and
younger users will create increasingly more complex content with higher production
value. Heck, who doesn't know a 4th grader whose made a movie?"
Karen
Howe, VP, AOL "Happy About Knowing What
to Expect in 2006: Getting a Handle on the Year Ahead" will help you think
about expectations for this year. Mitchell Levy has been making extremely accurate
predictions since 1998. Read about his previous predictions to see how much
credibility you'll give to this year's trends. It's a fun and entertaining read.
You will be glad you spent the time and will be happy with your new perspective.
The book sells in paperback form for $19.95 and in ebook form for $11.95. The
eBook and paperback are available from the Happy About website today and will
be available on Amazon and through the book channels in the next week or two.
View the contributors for this year, read more predictions, view the table of
contents and purchase a copy (http://happyabout.info/economy.php).
About Mitchell Levy
Mitchell Levy is Director of the innovative Silicon Valley Executive Business
Program and the Chairman and partner of CEOnetworking. Mr. Levy is also President
and CEO of ECnow.com, a Management Consulting firm helping company's grow with
strategic consulting and targeted business education, author of the books E-Volve-or-Die.com,
Happy About Outsourcing, and Happy About
Knowing What to Expect in 2005, creator of the Value Framework®,
and on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR). About
Happy About®
The Happy About® book series is comprised of
books with a positive spin on controversial and educational topics. Visit Happy
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