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Peter's final call to a young and growing church
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Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
75% of all U.S. firms do not have employees, but are single person ...read more
Tags: Business And Marketplace
31% of hotel guests often have a problem with noise during a stay, second only to dirty rooms as the biggest hotel annoyance. Disturbance by other guests or their TVs is the #1 source of noise irritation: 59.3% of guests rated it more annoying ...read more
Tags: Stress
DELAYING MARRIAGE U.S. Census estimates show that for the first time, unmarried adults represented more than half of American households. 73% of men and 62% of women in their 20s in '06 said they had never been married, according to Census data. Just 23.5% of men and 31.5% of women ages 20-29 were ...read more
Tags: Marriage General
According to a recent Deloitte Consumer Product group, 62% of consumers read consumer-written product reviews on the Internet, and of these, more than 80% say their purchase decisions have been directly influenced by the reviews, either influencing them to buy a different product than the one they ...read more
According to industry research, approximately 40% of online ad dollars are allocated to search. That leaves approximately 60% allocated to online display ads. Of that remaining 60%, approximately half is allocated towards ad networks. This means that about 30% of total online ...read more
Tags: Internet
Religious books were top choice among America’s most avid readers in '06. An AP-Ipsos poll found that 66% of U.S. adults read a religious book (including the Bible), the most-read category, followed by popular fiction, histories, bio-graphies, and mysteries. One in four did not read any book during ...read more
Tags: Books And Literature
A recent Barna study finds that 72% of teens in '07 pray in a typical week, vs. 81% a decade ago. 48% attend a church worship service, vs. 53% in '97. Just 35% attend Sunday school, 33% youth group, 32% ...read more
Tags: Youth
Parents are taking a more active role in the lives of their children than they did 10 years ago, reports the Census Bureau. In '04, 47% of teens had restrictions on TV viewing, up from 40% in '94. 68% of 3-5-year-olds had TV viewing limits in '04 vs. 54% in '94. Kids' 6-11 viewing restrictions grew ...read more
Tags: Parenting
Interactive Marketing spending in the US will more than triple over the next five years, reaching $61 billion by 2012, finds a Forrester Research report. The growth in interactive marketing spending represents a 27% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Interactive marketing, 8% of ...read more
Amazon walked away from Q3 with $80 million in profit, more than four times as in '06. The company expects Q4 sales to be $5.1 billion ...read more
Tags: Money
A 2006 survey of state adult protective agencies found 565,747 reports of abuse of vulnerable adults in one year. With 89% of reports occurring in domestic settings, it's a disturbing snapshot of mistreatment of people in their own homes, mostly by their own kin, who are also likely to be their ...read more
Tags: Family
Jane Friedman, President of HarperCollins World, identified the "Five Tenets of Publishing" at a recent ECPA Publishers University. They are: foster relationships; create and develop great content; remember that the author is the most important asset; move with technology and ...read more
According to NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions, sales will rise 4% this year to $474.5 billion. U.S. consumers plan to spend an average of $816.69 on holiday shopping, plus an additional $106.67 on special "non-gift" purchases by taking advantage of special promotions and discounts to treat ...read more
Tags: Materialism
Luxury consumers’ feeling of confidence tanked in Q3, as measured by Unity Marketing’s Luxury Consumption Index. The index plummeted to 87.3 points, its lowest level since '04, following a 4-point drop in Q2. The index is based upon a survey of luxury consumers (average income $150,000 and ...read more
U.S. retailers are expected to add up to 600,000 people to their employment rolls between now and December. Target alone will hire 50,000 to 80,000 seasonal workers. Retail staffs increase an average of 5% during the holidays, but some stores boost employee rolls by as much as 50%, a number to ...read more
Tags: Grace
Depending on whose statistics you believe, anywhere from 15% to 40% of Christian believers today have felt betrayed or wounded by the church at some point. (SOURCE: Trusting God’s ...read more
Tags: Church General
Audio Book Sales are estimated at $923 million for '06, a 6% jump from the previous year, reports the Audio Publishers Assoc. 69% of that was CD-format ...read more
The percentage of women choosing to work outside the home has been flat to down for several years running. Not coincidentally, the number of meals purchased at restaurants per person has stopped growing too, for the longest sustained stretch in the 23 years NPD Group has tracked the number. The ...read more
A new survey from Shop.org and Forrester Research finds retailers are becoming more fluent in selling across channels, and of total marketing dollars spent, 18% is now directed toward driving cross-channel sales vs. 13% in '06. Retailers say 43% of catalog customers have also purchased from their ...read more
China has too many men. Today, roughly 120 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, perhaps the worst gender imbalance in modern human history. Within 15 years, the country may have 30 million men who cannot find wives. Households have preferred male children because men are viewed as better ...read more
Tags: Men And Women
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