Top 25 Business Buzzwords for 2012
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With the start of the New Year come resolutions and newfound motivation to take advantage of the fresh start the new year presents. It also signals the introduction of a new round of buzz words that will make their way around the office, the water cooler and into quite a few presentations.
To aid you in keeping up to date with the newest buzz words you'll hear in 2012, BusinessNewsDaily has compiled a list of the top 25 buzz words for the new year. We compiled the list by interviewing small-business owners, PR people, small-business communications firms, consultants and vendors. Only time will tell if we got it right.
1. Crowdfund/Crowdsource
2. Synergize
3. Freemium
4. Osmosis marketing
5. Digital nomads
6. Big data
7. Knowledge economy
8. Skills transfer
9. Cross-platform
10. Authority marketing
11. Social looping
12. Gamification
13. Retail curation
14. Network virtualization
15. Intellectual capital
16. Right-sizing
17. Convergence
18. Personal branding
19. HTML5
20. Value-added
21. Consumerization
22. Niche
23. Streamlined
24. Incentivize
25. Localization
Reach BusinessNewsDaily staff writer David Mielach at Dmielach@techmedianetwork.com. Follow him on Twitter @D_M89.

