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Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod

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In the universe of lean marketing tactics, best practice always includes a healthy mix of public relations efforts. But Clinton proceeded top spend the next decade of his life communicating his values, performing good works, and rehabilitating his public image and today he is a beloved figure in American (and global) life.

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Cause Marketing on Ice

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The organization builds awareness through events and outreach – historically their most popular fundraising effort has been their annual Walk to Defeat ALS , which since 2002 has raised almost $200 million in donations. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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

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Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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