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Semiotics in Marketing: What It Means for Your Brand and Messaging

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As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. Appealing to mature, blue-collar customers, the brand chooses dark blue and and an earthy golden shade to help the target audience identify with beer.

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

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If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. They controlled distribution to the masses.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player.