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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading.

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How To Make Better Business Decisions Using Google Analytics

Up and Running

Which websites, Google Ads campaigns , or search engines brought them to your website? Users have a lot of control over the search engines they use in their browsers, and although Google is currently the dominant one, there are alternatives such as Bing and DuckDuckGo. Acquisition. Where did your site visitors come from? Setting goals.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

And it turned into Expression Engine. I was trying to get all my friends who are in marketing to say, “This blogging thing is, you know, you need take this seriously.” So I think of direct sales. And then I also had a few I started about 10 blogs for…I was kind of like you.