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7 Interesting Marketing Lessons from My Broken Dishwasher

Growthink Blog

from a web forum post from Joey in Idaho). Lesson: Expect your customers to have some knowledge about your products or services. Note that this knowledge may not be accurate based on where they learned it (e.g., Step 2: So, my wife called an appliance repair guy who she found by doing some local searches online.

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12 Questions: Meet Michael Irby (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Michael lives and works in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Please tell us about yourself. Thanks, Michael!

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Innovation, like eggs, is cheaper in the country

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy, helped invent TV. The good news in today’s blog post is that an entrepreneurial and innovative company is stepping up to meet the rural web access need. Edison was a country boy from tiny Milan, Ohio. Cable TV started as a solution for rural and small town America.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year. His firm invests in four.

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Do The Mash — for Breakthrough Ideas

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Philo was a farm boy, raised in Utah and Idaho and you’ll see in a moment why that matters here. This post is the 10th in a series of posts related to innovation for small business, and is essentially an online, blogged, book. First of all he had an “intense preoccupation” with the idea of pictures over the air.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

com What it does: Gathers, tracks, analyzes and reports on what people are saying about a brand, on blogs and through comments and posts on social media sites. It’s decent at capturing blog and Twitter-based content but not as accurate at capturing content that is behind a ‘sign-in’ gate, most notably Facebook. Team-building.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

entrepreMusings

I received a request to post this info back in April, but just now had the time to get it on the blog. It’s a bit dated but still useful especially since Austin, Texas made the list for being one of the most friendly places for small businesses!