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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

Once upon a time marketers would print up 100 or more flyers and post them on grocery store bulletin boards, power poles, deliver them door-to-door, or distribute them from the cash register. When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. And guess what? Yellow Page Ads.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. This happens in advertising all the time.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Tips from Matt Mickiewicz: To keep costs low try swapping services for other services. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. He mentioned that an idea is worth nothing and often times fails because lack of distribution channel.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Advertising. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Personal Finance.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Your best bet is probably taking an existing market and serving a portion of it better than the competition, through lower cost or a different set of features. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad.