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Mitchell Levy authors new book on 2006 Trends and states that
In 2006, Energy Issues Take a Front Burner on the
World Stage***
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.
The
Internet's democratization effect expands to traditional media.
Marketing
expenditures and activities continue to shift to the Internet.
China's
continued growth significantly affects world commerce.
Outsourcing
continues to expand to other sectors of the economy.
Services
continue to play a bigger role in Western economies.
Usage
and proliferation of mobile commerce expands.
Adoption
of VOIP continues.
Employer/employee relationships
strengthen for the first time in years.
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 tradebook form for $19.95 and in ebook form for $11.95. The
PDF and tradebook versions 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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