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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. Promotion.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. Have a cushion.

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Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod

crowdSPRING Blog

Small businesses and startups can often leverage PR to great effect and it is typically one of the most cost-effective ways to generate positive word-of-mouth, build awareness, and grow a nascent brand. The list of companies, politicians, celebrities, and athletes that fall victim to PR errors is long and getting longer.

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Cause Marketing on Ice

crowdSPRING Blog

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has, um, caught fire and spread globally to build awareness and raise over $7 million in donations for the ALS Association. In contrast, the Ice Bucket Challenge is a low-cost, light-touch, ongoing event that works to build awareness and create involvement with little or no oversight or management.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

Audience: 75 percent voted “Yes” 5) Water tech will replace global warming as global priority (Joe) Here is the premise behind this trend: the world is running out of water and this will kill more people than global warming. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Global Warning!

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 because all your costs are up front, and your revenue is over a five year period, the more you sell, the more you lose. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Global warming: a plague for humanity? McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. ” My guess would have more to do with the costs of Windows Server licensing and the Visual Studio IDE than with the capabilities of.NET or C# (of which the above post demonstrates an extremely limited understanding). originalgeek.

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