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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. And it’s a definite win-win for the customers and the manufacturer. 4- Netflix.

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The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman

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. Listen to Content Is Profit, wherever you get your podcasts. (00:55):

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

ConversionXL

These are in no way the definitive set of fonts to use for your display ads so I would recommend that you place your money on testing. As I mentioned earlier, part of the banner blindness problem is that readers completely fail to see the ads, let alone differentiate them from the content. Source (Click to Enlarge).

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 1 provides typographical definitions. Definitions. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. Introduction. Legibility vs. readability.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Warren Buffet, 1997. Those that are allocated shares have definitive and explicit monetary gain within a 24 hour period of receiving an allocation. If you look up a definition of underwriting it involves “taking on financial risk” and “putting capital at risk” which they do not actually do in a typical IPO transaction.

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