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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong.

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How To Get What You Want By Helping Others Get What They Want

Duct Tape Marketing

Recent episode, The power of just one big marketing idea and How to get it really brings home this idea that instead of chasing the idea of the week, really lock in on one big idea to differentiate your business that can make all the difference in the world. Sign up to receive email updates. More About Joe Polish: WhatsInItForThem.com.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. Sans serif are better on the web. Ergonomics , 35(10), 1297-1326. Gaultney, V. Mills, C.B.,

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Cialdini’s 7th Persuasion Principle: Using Unity in Online Marketing

ConversionXL

The Unity Principle that Cialdini talks about is very similar to a persuasion principle mentioned in a book called The Age of Propaganda , (and before that in a 1992 NYT article ) under a slightly different name: The Granfalloon Technique. The use of family in advertising is nothing new. You felt an instant connection, didn’t you?