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

YoungUpstarts

Though paper flyers are an option for today’s marketer, technology has also made it possible for you to avail yourself of digital distribution options and opened the door for platforms like evite , where anyone with a computer can quickly draw up an event or occasion announcement and distribute it to thousands of email and social media contacts.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. Email habits change. What does a thoughtful campaign look like? Ross Simmonds of Foundation Inc. Social habits change.

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

ConversionXL

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. 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.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

It seems that everyone is running some type of online campaign nowadays. Here is our guide to running an effective and legal sweepstakes campaign online. First off, let’s define what a sweepstakes campaign is. Case #2 – Unique Hotels Facebook Campaign. Some of them good, some not so much. Borderless world.

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1admuzC. Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1admuzC. TV Ads Trigger Facebook Ad Campaigns | Business Insider - crowdspring.co/GRv3IA. LinkedIn - crowdspring.co/H47RXx. crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

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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. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. The sooner you understand that the sooner you can plan your campaign. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? ” (Zig Ziglar). Why buy me?

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