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Important Branding Lessons From The Top 5 Retailers In The US

YoungUpstarts

And, in the years since, they’ve carefully curated the brand’s offerings to ensure quality and customer appeal. We recommend that you follow Costco’s lead and curate your store’s signature brand carefully. Find a differentiating factor for your signature brand. Take regular stock of your brand – and, don’t trust any assumptions.

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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. As privacy gets eroded through government activity we can expect a lot more anonymous forums to emerge as powerful web platforms.

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7 Outstanding (and Free!) Stock Photography Sites Your Marketing Team Should Know About

crowdSPRING Blog

That’s where stock photography sites come in handy. Stock photography sites can provide the raw images that you can creatively transform into valuable visual content. But, not all stock photographs are licensed for commercial use. Here are 7 of the most popular stock photography sites: Pexels.com. Unsplash.com.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

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The 5 Step Winning Website Formula

Duct Tape Marketing

Tim Brown (02:02): Yeah, I'd say differentiation. It's so many people want the phone to ring, but what they don't realize is that, that without that strategy on the front end, it's actually harder for guys like you to make the phone ring to some degree because that differentiation becomes, turns them into a commodity a bed.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. Recent growth in digital social networks has served as a reminder on what differentiates our species. What if a retailer had no stock in the store?

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