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5 Reasons Why Business Cards Are Still Important In 2018

YoungUpstarts

I’ve talked to a lot of business people asking what medium they use to introduce and market themselves. Some of them have different tools, such as e-mail and website portfolios. They are one of the most effective direct marketing tools. But the vast majority of them have one thing in common—business cards.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Read more: TechCrunch. Wildfire Interactive.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Direct marketing—the largest direct marketing company in the world is a software company, Google.

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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

We have to do Search Engine Optimization. We have to do Email Marketing. We have to do Paid Search. Smart Marketers work hard to ensure that their digital marketing and advertising efforts are focused on the most impactful portfolio of channels. Maybe it is Search, Email and Facebook.

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We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! - Startups and angels: Along.

Tim Keane

If you dont already know about it, check out the ECHO awards of the Direct Marketing Association. Award portfolios can often be a source of comparable data on these kinds of results. Heres the DMA bookstore link to the most recently published portfolio. Check the experience of others for detailed data. Enter your Email.

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Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps!

Occam's Razor

Competitive Intelligence: Compete , Google Insights for Search , DoubleClick Ad Planner , Trends for Websites. If you can't make up your mind do KissInsights and Insights for Search. You have a publicly available portfolio of your work, no matter how small or basic. Surveys : KissInsights or 4Q Survey. Time to find a job.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Give direction → Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? If someone can point me in the direction of a sans serif font that has an easily discernible difference between a capital “I” and a lowercase “l,” I’ll gladly consider switching! Alex Poole. User experience design and research.