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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Write it down on a napkin. The expert: David Ciccarelli, Voices.com.

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The future of television advertising

BeyondVC

In addition, via deals with cable companies like Comcast, Visible World will be able to reach 30 million households by the end of 2004. Comcast says it can direct ads to narrow zones of 1,000 to 20,000 homes in a growing number of cities, including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, and Phildelphia.

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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

conversionxl.com

Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 Louis and Detroit. Go to Wal-Mart and you see prices ending with 9 everywhere. Does it really work? Surely all intelligent people understand that $39 and $40 are basically the same. But 9 months later it’s not doing so well.

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