{"id":1523,"date":"2008-04-18T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/fastest-dying-industries\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T08:09:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:09:04","slug":"fastest-dying-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/fastest-dying-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest Dying Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly newspapers are the poster child for this topic.\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/IndustryInfo\/story?id=4667790&amp;page=1\">ABCnews.com approaches this topic<\/a> with research that forecasts industry changes over the next 5 years.\u00a0 Some of their predictions and suggestions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another way to avoid disaster? Diversify. In response to decades of declining circulation and shaky print advertising numbers, newspaper publishers are expanding their holdings in non-traditional ways. The two largest, Gannett and Tribune, own a stake Careerbuilder.com, the online job search Web site. In 2005, The New York Times Co. bought About.com, a general information site. Will it work? The jury is out. Worth noting, though&#8211;the industry&#8217;s most successful transition is also its most radical. The Washington Post Co. secured their future by buying Kaplan Learning centers, morphing the company into an &#8220;information&#8221; firm and leaning on the new entity, rather than their news operations, to drive growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Post has done a good job of adapting ahead of the trend.\u00a0 However, I wonder if it is simply too late for these other papers to make such a shift in their business model (I think it is).<\/p>\n<p>Here is one I didn&#8217;t think about, but it is a certain trend based on Gen Y:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most surprising find: While technology is changing the face of many industries, the firms within them are often doing quite well. One strategy for surviving a technological onslaught is to control the change itself. AT&amp;T and Verizon, the largest wired telecommunications firms, are hardly worried that more than 1 million phone &#8220;land lines&#8221; are expected to be switched off each year between now and 2012. Both of those firms saw their wireless subscriber numbers surge in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.\u00a0 I suspect home phone lines will disappear in the very near future as cell phones eventually become the standard.\u00a0 The article is a good read if you have the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly newspapers are the poster child for this topic.\u00a0 ABCnews.com approaches this topic with research that forecasts industry changes over the next 5 years.\u00a0 Some of their predictions and suggestions: Another way to avoid disaster? Diversify. In response to decades of declining circulation and shaky print advertising numbers, newspaper publishers are expanding their holdings in non-traditional ways. The two largest, Gannett and Tribune, own a stake Careerbuilder.com, the online job search Web site. In 2005, The New York Times Co. bought About.com, a general information site. Will it work? The jury is out. Worth noting, though&#8211;the industry&#8217;s most successful transition is also its most radical. The Washington Post Co. secured&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/fastest-dying-industries\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[559,557,558],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-trends","tag-dying-industries","tag-industries","tag-market-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1914,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/02\/there-are-still-open-positions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1523,"position":0},"title":"There Are Still Open Positions","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"You never quite know what you are going to receive from the Herman Trend Alert which makes it one of the more highly-anticipated newsletters in my inbox.\u00a0 This week the topic is how many job postings there are presently - over 1.8 million.\u00a0 Granted, there is far more to hiring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2084,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/07\/the-future-of-social-networking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1523,"position":1},"title":"The Future Of Social Networking","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Herman Trend Alert\u2019s topic this week is the future of social networking.\u00a0 An excerpt for you (my bolding): \"Social networking is in its infancy\", says David Nour, Relationship Economics CEO and Web 2.0 guru. \"We're on the upward swing of the hype cycle\". 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