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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. Instead the company used most its cash on marketing and advertising in trying to define a new product category and accelerate adoption. Research in Motion (RIM). Are you cheaper?

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How To Get What You Want By Helping Others Get What They Want

Duct Tape Marketing

Recent episode, The power of just one big marketing idea and How to get it really brings home this idea that instead of chasing the idea of the week, really lock in on one big idea to differentiate your business that can make all the difference in the world. Listen to Content Is Profit wherever you get your podcasts. (00:54):

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. What about what David Ogilvy said in his OGILVY ON ADVERTISING, and elsewhere? Gaultney, V.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter: July 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The company has developed a kind of private advertising channel that enables advertisers to send marketing messages directly to potential customers via Internet banners. The firm, which was founded in Lod, Israel, in 1992, develops components for managing the energy supply to lighting units in order to save energy.

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Cialdini’s 7th Persuasion Principle: Using Unity in Online Marketing

ConversionXL

The Unity Principle that Cialdini talks about is very similar to a persuasion principle mentioned in a book called The Age of Propaganda , (and before that in a 1992 NYT article ) under a slightly different name: The Granfalloon Technique. The use of family in advertising is nothing new. You felt an instant connection, didn’t you?