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6 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics For New Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Also known as stealth marketing, this clever tactic advertises a product in such a sneaky manner that people aren’t even aware that they’re being subjected to advertising. One of the most memorable campaigns was launched by Sony Ericsson back in 2002 in the early days of cell phones with a digital camera. Undercover marketing.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. What the big studies have shown. Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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The 4 Biggest Business Mistakes of All Time (and What You Can Learn From Them)

Up and Running

CASE STUDY #2: EDSEL. The company lost $250 million on the debacle—a sum equal to more than $2 billion of today’s dollars. Well, for one thing, the name. Ford’s advertising agency—Foote, Cone & Belding—solicited its employees to suggest names for the new car, offering the winner a car of their own as the prize.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). In the end you have to invest time to build your name. 2 Mike on 09.29.09 at 2:06 pm [.] at 3:17 pm [.]

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

Ben & Jerry’s is a quirky ice cream company that’s best known for its creatively-named flavors and outspoken political advocacy. The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. The following year, Coca-Cola bought out Energy Brands for $4.1 Burt’s Bees.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Unique name addressing what we’re doing. 2-We chose two superlatives. 2-We chose two superlatives. Photo Credit: Lior Gal.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

Step 2: Write your survey and send it to your audience. Step 4: Explore the data (Part 2: Pivot tables and Excel). They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. Step 2: Write your survey and send it to your audience. Where marketers tend to go wrong with user personas. Clustering was more fun.