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5 Ways To Get Beyond Early Adopters For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, even today many engineers and product developers believe that marketing is just for advertisements. Although early adopters may not be deterred by complex interfaces, the rest of your customers will rate the solution by the wording, fonts, white space, and pictures, not by how many options you can fit on a page.

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Marketing 101: Creative Marketing Campaigns You Should Do

The Startup Magazine

When Colonel Sanders first started his company, he went from door-to-door selling his widely-acclaimed Kentucky fried chicken. Colonel Sanders knew the importance of advertising and marketing in the neighborhood, and you should, too. Personalized advertisements can be powerful in almost any circumstance.

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6 Texas-Style Business Lessons That Every Entrepreneur Can Take To The Bank

YoungUpstarts

The biggest business – oil – is always negotiated with a good bottle of Kentucky Sour Mash on the table. It is part of a larger convention by which someone advertises confidence and competence. Wrong again. Real business people in Texas still drink “Bourbon and branch” to close a deal. Go big, go long or go home.”.

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PressIt, An Easy Way To Convert Original Content Into Merchandise

YoungUpstarts

Louisville, Kentucky-based online retailer of stock and user-customized on demand products CafePress has launched PressIt , a simple and effective way for bloggers or small businesses to monetize their original images and other content, by making it simple to put them on products like t-shirts, mugs and tote bags.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Advertising. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. Advertise Locally. » More. Loading… Asia. Management. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Computer Software. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. California.

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[Review] How To Speak American

YoungUpstarts

Advertising decisions are generally being made by people who have no connection to the consumers they’re targeting, and that’s a dangerous risk to any brand,” Jankowski adds. They are likely to also have preconceived, even derisive, notions that can get in the way of understanding the heartlands consumer. consumers,” Jankowski explains.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

Two trains were designated to travel around Texas to advertise the event. The idea was that he would become the face of the company and use his own image as well as his personal information, including his real social security number, to advertise and promote the company’s services.

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