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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals.

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The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman

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. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company.

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How to Write Compelling Marketing Copy: 7 Tips for Writing Content That Gets Results

crowdSPRING Blog

In 1997 the Nielsen Norman Group revealed that 79% of users they tested scanned web pages rather than reading them. This formula is great to use when introducing a new product or service that needs some explanation or when you want to differentiate your product/service from a competitor. This first tip is important. People are busy.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. Here you need to spend your marketing dollars differentiating your product from the incumbents. RIM Interactive Pager 900. Are you faster and better?

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. Do you know the name of the cleaning person? That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). They point out that of 123 statements about typography in Burt’s book, only three – 3 – were either supported by data or by reference to named sources (Rooum, 1981; Hartley and Rooum, 1983; in Lund, 1995 ). Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. Review article.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

ConversionXL

The company’s brand name. As I mentioned earlier, part of the banner blindness problem is that readers completely fail to see the ads, let alone differentiate them from the content. In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons.