blur Group is a technology company reinventing how businesses do commerce at blurgroup.com. Its Global Services Exchange delivers services differently: a new way to buy, manage and pay for core services. As of July 2013, more than 30,000 businesses in 141 countries have adopted this s-commerce platform and changed the way they work. 100 projects per month from companies like Broadridge, Coral, Exceed, HCA, Momentive, Red Commerce, the Financial Times, Berlitz, Butlins, GE Healthcare and Tyco are received. Over the same time, average brief value has grown from around US$1,500 in 2010 to US$10,800 in the first quarter of 2013. By mid-2013, more than 2,200 projects had been submitted with a combined value of over US$35 million. These have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with over 28,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them


http://blurgroup.com/

2013: A good year to take AIM

By John Harrington

January 02 2014, 11:28am


Crowd-sourcing trailblazer blur Group (LON:BLUR) appears to be aptly named; since floating in October 2012 at 82p the shares have risen faster than the eye can register, and now trade at 584.25p. All of the explosive growth came in 2013, with the shares rising 634% as the market got its head round blur’s business model and the way the company is reinventing what it calls services commerce, or s-commerce for short.

A succession of milestones were passed by the group during the year, with the interval between them getting shorter each time. In October, the group announced that its Global Services Exchange had been used 3,000 times by customers.

The value of projects submitted to the exchange, which allows customers to outsource almost any task, had exceeded US$70mln by the end of October. By mid-December, that figure had risen to US$104mln.



http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/64521/2013-a-good-year-to-take-aim-64521.html

Blur (Group) PLC (BLUR:LSE) set a new 52-week high during today's trading session when it reached 585.00. Over this period, the share price is up 640.51%.

dc yes interesting market cap £160m last year turnover£2.3m loss after tax £1.5m they are definitely going to have to run very hard to justify this rating. It is possible they can increase their turnover as the concept takes hold in say 5 years time.

All i'm interested in at the end of the day. :-))

dc well done are you still holding?

4000 @ 274p. Blur is on a 690p target price .

SOLDOUT

blur Group’s Industry Predictions for 2014


blurGroup

by Will

1 January, 2014




2013 was an extraordinary year, both for blur Group and the various business industries that the Global Services Exchange is focused on. What will 2014 look like?

One of the benefits of working with something like the Global Services Exchange is that you get insights into a huge range of industries. But with the amount that’s happening, and the amount of information that we’ve got available, how do you narrow your perspective down to what’s going to be important in 2014?

Luckily we’ve put together some predictions from industry experts. Take a look at their insights below, starting off with a look at the future for blur from our CEO, Philip Letts.

The future for blur


“In the next 12 months I want to make sure blur maintains a leading position in business services innovation. I want blur to be a true UK global technology success story. We saw in Q3 that blur and s-commerce is developing globally and is maturing at a fast pace, so I plan on keeping blur on this track. We just recently announced that we will be opening an office in Southern California that will be responsible for leading the development of blur’s strategic plans and business model.


“It will change not only the way that businesses transact when buying and selling services, but also help them to understand that there is always global choice whenever the time comes to buy a service – they need not use the same provider if they’d prefer a fresh perspective. It will free up ambition and possibility for businesses worldwide.”


Philip Letts, blur Group CEO and Founder

The rise of personal data


“I think that personal data analysis will be the big thing of 2014. With so many social media sites clogging up our smartphones, people are going to want to know what is worth keeping and what is worth ditching. Curiosity is inevitable; how many winks am I getting on Tinder? How many people actually watched that video I posted on Facebook? It seems to already have happened with Tumblr, which initially seemed to have the focus more on who you are following, but with their new control panel your activity is thrust in front of you, whether you want to see the rate of people following you and reblogging you or not. Facebook’s ‘See Your 2013 Year in Review’ is part of a similar move. There’s been a shift from active user to active provider, and people are going to want to see how their content is being received.”


Phoebe Ellis-Rees, blur Group Contributor

Clever Touch’s insights into marketing

1.Marketing automation will become more embedded, and intelligent engagements beyond drip campaigns will be seen as a new source of marketing advantage.
2.Marketers will evolve their social strategies beyond ‘social sentiment analysis’ with tools such as Radian 6, moving them to ‘social segment analysis’ with tools like CrowdVu.
3.Marketers will develop and reassess their data management and governance strategies…reputation management is the new brand management for 2014.


Adam Sharp, Clever Touch MD

Salesforce say go mobile


We are predicting that the world is going mobile. At the moment, less than 20% of enterprises are providing mobile ready applications. By 2017, we are predicting that over 80% will be mobile.


Get ahead of the curve if you haven’t done already!!!!!


Prediction for enterprise in 2014 – an increased focus on restructuring their company to focus their sales, service and marketing via mobile applications!”


Stephen Collins, Account Executive at salesforce.com

The outlook for content and PPC


Content Marketing: Content will be a key focus of this (as it already is) but expect more businesses to fully integrate content into their sites, tell stories and connect social properly. We suspect that many SEO campaigns (beyond the standard site optimisation) will look more like creative/branding projects rather than link-building/outreach campaigns. With great creative comes increased brand awareness and strong social support – This leads to social links, blog posts and PR (the things Google really love).


PPC: Bid management will continue to evolve and real time bidding will become a feature that most suppliers add to their suites. By monitoring and adjusting bids every few clicks instead of every hour (or often just a handful of times per day), businesses should find greater savings or improved returns for their budget. Whether these savings will out-weigh the cost of the tools in the first place will depend on the individual business and industry…


Paid search localisation will continue to evolve, with more concise targeting and mobile usage. If phone batteries ever improve then we will likely see more people with their mobile GPS turned on, which enables pinpoint accuracy and hyper-localised targeting.

Paid search ads will continue to take up more space in the search results, with extended G+ integration and more use of images in the paid ad space (images to support traditional search ads, and also Product Listing Ads).”


Stelios Pardalakis, Stellar Search

Continued improvement of content


“Over the course of 2013 we saw the quality of content improve massively, and I really hope this continues. Spammy articles have been completely devalued, and marketers are investing in well-researched content packed with original thought and depth. The rise in co-citation will raise standards even higher in 2014.”


Claire Broadley, Red Robot

Just checked the Ticker , $120,508,785 , wow a 5 $ Million jump in two day's! Should bode well tomorrow hopefully!!

Look more often then mcgrath1958 as it has not gone up like that when I look. :-))

Like that DC , i keep looking it be I Billion HeHe, maybe one day it will !!!

Kind of strange , all these Buys , yet the share price don't budge ?

all these buys??????????? ...... the total trade is a bare 40,000 shares!!!!!!

Trust me cynic , this will budge north very soon again, all these PI's today haven't brought into this share on just a whim trust me!!

why should i "trust you"? :-)
you may be right, but i don't deal in such illiquid stocks anyway

i have however bought WAND to tuck away for a while

Maybe that's in wrong context the "trust me", but you have to admit like Wand which i missed the boat on that one, they are both doing extremely well so far!! But as we all know any share can quickly tank big time and head South!

of course .... to some degree i was teasing
i don't really know what BLUR does, and i have just a small inkling about WAND and what it does

talking of which, 3-D printing is also an important cutting-edge industry that is worth investigating

No probs Cynic, you could be right about 3 -D printing , probably will be the next big thing, take some time but it will i believe change the world in lot's of ways! Again like all these "Potential Big Changers" let's say, as you know it's getting in on the first Company's that are going to hit it big, that's the trick as always to making big money!

3-D printing
you may need to look at US stocks for the best ..... try DDD and SSYS

No excuse to not know what a company does on any thread I have set up, just takes reading. :-)) or most of the threads in fact.