Goliath of a company in an always changing market

By: Billy Horgan

Established on April 4, 1975

1986 – IPO made 3 Billionaires and 12,000 Millionaires from Microsoft employees

March 10, 2011: Microsoft purchases Skype for $8.5 Billion

Key Growth Strategy

“Build a Pipeline of Future Leaders”

B u t h o w . . .

Utilize social media in complimenting markets

Microsoft controls the business software market but can it be expanded?

Purchase of

opens new doors!

PARTNERSHIPS

All helping people grow and develop

Strong social media presence

www.facebook.com/microsoft

@Microsoft www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft

Strong blogging topic Easily searchable

Markets with potential penetration!

Start their own or partner with a Social Media website?

Linkedin has over 100 million users and growing

Currently has a strong hold of business profiles

What’s missing?

But……

Video conferencing and video interviews

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Measuring success and budgeting

Purchase of Skype for $8.5 Billion

Microsoft annual revenue of $60 Billion

Couple Billion to spare on social media market development or partnership… I think so!

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