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4 Strategic Tools Service Businesses Can Borrow From Their Retail Counterparts

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The good news: Much of the technology designed for retail has finally caught up with the service industry, ushering in a new category of tools that can free up much needed time for business owners. Studies show that it costs a business five times as much to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

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Graphic design is a notoriously competitive field and it can be tough for companies to stand out. But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. Frog Design. MetaDesign.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

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Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug. Because brands vary widely in size charts, it will be even more important for profit margins to avoid returns and exchanges for color, style, design, and fit. Custom Designs. More and more companies these days are allowing customers to represent themselves through custom designs.

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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

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Contact Contact Us Submit News. With more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Designed in collaboration with Code & Theory. Follow @mashable.

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Paying Attention > Any Business Book

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By extension, design studios who serve up what’s asked without asking questions are forfeiting their responsibility. It doesn’t demand intellectual rigor, creativity, testing, development or any of the invisible pieces that imbue truly legendary design with its effortless value. Takeaway: working in brand design is tricky.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it.

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Transcript of How Installing a Marketing System Serves Consultants and Their Clients

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And certainly about a third of the network are people like yourself, you were offering a service, so to speak, website design or SEO or something little that and did you find that you were getting asked to do some of this or you were leaving money on the table? Ben Robertson: Yeah. So that’s a great way to get going.