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There is a difference between internet marketing companies that are already in Charlotte and internet market companies that have plans to come to Charlotte. Most marketing companies looking to move here or anywhere for that matter are not usually a business itself but they are a person or persons looking to get the ball rollin in a commercial type of marketing business.
Most of these people get started in this business by watching those infomercials on tv but it never pans out 95% of the time. These people mean all in well but it just isnt that easy. I am sure if you ask the OP for his or her real business address they wont give it cause chances are they don't have one. This is just my opinion only.
That was my initial thought when I read the OP.
There are marketing professionals who are in business to sincerely help other businesses grow, then there are marketing "companies" who make their money using "reps" to hard sell small business owners, providing little value for a lot of money.
Real marketing companies don't churn and burn "independent" sales reps.
If your company is so big, why would feel the need to come here and ask about then quality of salesmen/women in this area?
Seems to me, a company that big has better resources than Citi-data
I believe he was just asking the question as an excuse to post, lol. He wanted to get the word out and that was simply one way to do it.
It could be a legit company, but since many of us are offering marketing services to small businesses already . . . there really is a great choice of long established companies already here.
Company is relative to the luxury market. Digital marketing and advertising. National and International. In this world economy only HNWI have $$. Therefore, they are the demos to advertise and market to.
These articles are interesting in that it depends on your perception of the information offered... We've had a long running thread discussing how the luxury market is pretty dead in the area and what I take from these articles is that "real" luxury is back - but catering to the very elite. "Elite" meaning a select few - NOT the watered down luxury that was being marketed to the masses. The masses that would make an endeavor like this overly successful.
I just don't see something like this taking off at the HNWI level, but maybe that's me... I see it being more towards that real elite or what the wiki calls a UHNWI. Even if you would be looking to target HNWI - that sector is heavily declining and estimates of future expansion there are being corrected down.
The Merrill Lynch - Capgemini World’s Wealth Report 2009[3] defines HNWIs as those who hold at least US$1 million in financial assets and Ultra-HNWIs as those who hold at least US$30 million in financial assets, with both excluding collectibles, consumables, consumer durables and primary residences. The report states that in 2008 there were 8.6 million HNWIs worldwide, a decline of 14.9% from 2007. The total HNWI wealth worldwide totaled US$32.8 trillion, a 19.5% decrease from 2007. The Ultra-HNWIs experienced the greater loss, losing 24.6% in population size and 23.9% in accumulated wealth. The report revised its 2007 projections that HNWI financial wealth would reach US$59.1 trillion by 2012 and revised this downward to a 2013 HNWI wealth valued at $48.5 trillion advancing at an annual rate of 8.1%.
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Brands in various sectors, such as Bentley, Maybach and Rolls-Royce in motoring, actively target UHNWI and HNWI to sell their products. Figures gathered by Rolls-Royce suggest there are 80,000 people in the UHNWI category around the world.[5] They have, on average, eight cars and three or four homes. Three-quarters own a jet aircraft and most have a yacht.
Just wanted to post that I received a note from a CD member who has a reason to know *with certainty* that this is a legit company . . . and indeed, this company will be making an announcement shortly.
We are just gonna have to wait to find out more. I wanted to share this info since I had speculated about the company's legitimacy.
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