Steve Ballmer: How Do We Get 25% of Our Revenues in Advertising
Posted by Sebastien on the 2007/10/18 at 08:44
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In a conversation with John Battelle this morning at the Web 2.0 Summit, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, disclosed the four things Microsoft will need to do if they want to reach their goal of having 25% of their revenues coming from advertising in the future.
- Do search well
- Be good at community and communications
- Have a strong advertising platform that delivers all payloads in all media compatible with all business models
- Have ads you sell on behalf of other people.
What it means: I was listening to Ballmer’s list and I quickly realized this sounded very close to what local search experts (like The Kelsey Group or Greg Sterling) have been suggesting to directory publishers in the last couple of years: build a better local search destination, leverage the sales force to sell a varie