{"id":7,"date":"2014-07-20T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-07-20T23:07:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:07:01","slug":"digital-content-is-taking-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Digital Content is taking over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I said it! \u00a0Digital content is taking over!<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact Apple started it first!<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me ask yourself when was the last time you actually used a physical CD to listen to music.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover for all Apple fanatics that always get the latest technology hardware! \u00a0They all know that CD drives are not sold with\u00a0the latest Macbook Pro. \u00a0Why should they, after all Apple created the AppStore, Itunes! \u00a0Why still rely on a CD when Market &amp; Telecom leaders are\u00a0pushing to have all <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/14\/ericsson-sees-the-internet-of-things-by-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">devices connected.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lets face it once Apple starts doing something, the rest will follow.<\/p>\n<p>If any of you have purchased anything at the Apple Store recently you must have been asked that question &#8220;Would you like me to send your receipt via email ?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact let me rephrase this:<\/p>\n<p>If any of you have purchased anything from <del>at the<\/del>\u00a0Apple <del>store<\/del> recently. \u00a0You have received this &#8220;<span style=\"color: #222222;\">Votre facture de\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"il\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Apple<\/span>&#8221; ( Translation <em>your receipt from Apple<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/Article\/Global-B2C-Ecommerce-Sales-Hit-15-Trillion-This-Year-Driven-by-Growth-Emerging-Markets\/1010575\" target=\"_blank\">steady growth<\/a> in Ecommerce,\u00a0more transactions are being made online. \u00a0More of these e-receipts are being generated.<\/p>\n<p>As of today all this new digital content ends up in\u00a0our email inbox!!! \u00a0For a consumer, OK, a receipt is just a receipt. \u00a0On the other hand for Businesses a receipt has important financial data. \u00a0It should not be treated\u00a0like the &#8220;Hi, What are you up to?&#8221; email or the recurrent newsletter. \u00a0 It should not because it\u00a0is not the SAME.<\/p>\n<p>An e-receipt has a high value for a business, especially during income tax season. \u00a0And we all know how small businesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjeub.com\/my-love-hate-relationship-with-accounting\/\" target=\"_blank\">love accounting!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Granted, businesses\u00a0don&#8217;t want to have to use another email address just to handle all e-receipts. \u00a0They want an application that\u00a0seamlessly\u00a0does all the work in the backend while they focus\u00a0on their regular activities.<\/p>\n<p>I think we need to\u00a0change. \u00a0We need to come up with tools which will help us cope with this overloading\u00a0stream of digital content that ends up in our email Inbox by default. \u00a0If I want information about social media, I go on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a>. \u00a0If I need information on a topic I go on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">wikipedia<\/a>. \u00a0But If I want consolidated\u00a0information about my receipts, where do I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billifyme.com\">go<\/a>???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I said it! \u00a0Digital content is taking over! As a matter of fact Apple started it first! If you don&#8217;t believe me ask yourself when was the last time you actually used a physical CD to listen to music. Moreover for all Apple fanatics that always get the latest technology hardware! \u00a0They all know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billifyme.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}