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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Don’t miss the small business sales and marketing event of the year! Google I/O. InfusionCon. Inside BitCoins NYC.

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How To Market Better and Grow Your Small Business Faster Using The Psychology of Reciprocity

crowdSPRING Blog

Sales and general foot traffic increased because of the free offer, which demonstrated the power of reciprocity. One great example is the time a traveler to Las Vegas checked into her hotel, only to discover she had forgotten her favorite shoes at home. Morton’s Steakhouse. So she called customer service. Saying thank you.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Ben & Jerry’s is a quirky ice cream company that’s best known for its creatively-named flavors and outspoken political advocacy. Burt’s Bees.

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13 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Of all the sports leagues they seem to have built the strongest global brand with players coming from Africa, all over Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, etc. They have taken what used to be a secondary American sport (behind football and baseball) and made it relevant and popular on a global stage. Photo Credit: Michael Drake.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Eventually, the company was led to global dominance by Alfred P. Treasury invested $50 billion in General Motors a month later and made $39 billion from the sale of its shares later that.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt.

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How To Make Money With Your Blog (With Case Studies As Proof)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

You can make money with your blog by placing advertisements on it, by selling products as an affiliate where you earn a commission for each sale you refer, or by selling products and services of your own. He lost his job as an architect during the global financial crisis. Affiliate marketing. Selling products and services. Yaro Starak.

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