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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

One early researcher was Edward Bernays—Sigmund Freud’s nephew—who coined the term “public relations.”. Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” Bernays believed that people could be influenced via crowd psychology and psychoanalysis.

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Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod

crowdSPRING Blog

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

crowdSPRING Blog

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. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Small Business and Social Marketing: Time for an Audit?

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Getting Serious: The next billion-dollar market in games

VC Cafe

America’s Army pushed the first person shooter genre into the service of recruitment and public relations. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming.

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The 4 Biggest Business Mistakes of All Time (and What You Can Learn From Them)

Up and Running

When Ford’s public relations manager, C. By 2002, New Coke was dead. Ford’s frustrated chairman, Ernest Breech, asked the committee out loud, “Why don’t we just call it Edsel (after the founder’s late son and former president of the company, Edsel Ford)?” What Went Wrong?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company. I continued my day job but I had somebody working for me as an instructor. And then, I bought a helicopter and started doing the same thing.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Gust

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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