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How To Create A Brand Name For Your Company

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Create A Brand Name For Your Company written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He also has a new book: Brand Naming: The Complete Guide to Creating a Name for Your Company, Product, or Service. 5:20] Are there attributes from a general perspective that your brand name should have? [6:55]

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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How to Use Your Website to Convert Consulting Leads into Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

Here’s how consistently sharing worked out for consultant and coach Robert Middleton of Action Plan Marketing : “Since 2002, virtually all of my business has come as a result of my email newsletter and blog. Any modern email marketing service can deliver them automatically. Use your email list as a two-way street.

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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

Then, there’s the infamous email scams of which Nigeria is most widely known. Seen by many in the country as the only way out of poverty and a valid business alternative, emails promising riches to vulnerable people in the West have branded the country as one to stay away from. Online shopping as tech opportunities.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Mutual Funds.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. If you attract names like these you’re bound to attract some media attention and then Chad Hurley dropped the bomb that he was leaving YouTube while he was at the f.ounders event. Scenes from my counter-top on my last night in Dublin.

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What Defines Your Company Culture?

Up and Running

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters.