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Name: David Hoffman
From: North Dakota
Bio: Web developer, .com owner, web application sales
Area of Expertise: Entrepreneur/Business Leader
Topic: Community/Culture
Headline: An Empowered People
Nutshell: The world's communities will be more and more empowered with easily accessible knowledge, which will affect purchasing decisions.
Vision:I have real estate firms and auto dealerships as clients, for instance. They tell me that each year their customers are armed with foreknowlege of what they want. They don’t need advice…they want to perform a transaction.
Products may still sell on hype, though, because although there will be more facts out there, there will also be more hype that travels faster than ever.
Date Submitted: November 10, 2004