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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

My parents were entrepreneurs from the time I was born, specifically in retail and direct marketing. For us, this was the color green and our SellStrong bands. On the final days of the quarter, everyone at Bazaarvoice dressed in green to emphasize company unity?—?that in honor of my mother.

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

Queries like – compare the sales data of green dresses versus the blue ones, with how many of each does manufacturing have in inventory, and what does finance say the gross margin by region of these product are – would be hard to answer because it required combining data from three incompatible applications.)

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What you have to know about conversion optimization

ConversionXL

A confused mind always says ‘no’, goes the old direct marketing adage. In this test red kicked greens butt and converted 21% better (orange was not tested): Image: Hubspot. CityCliq: 88.9% improvement. The winning headline is the one on the right. The offer is the deal you’re presenting to your visitor.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

BioVantage offers an algae-based, “green” alternative to classical wastewater lagoon aeration significantly reducing costs while helping municipalities to comply with new stringent mandates. · Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet. . TopSchool, Inc.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

BioVantage offers an algae-based, “green” alternative to classical wastewater lagoon aeration significantly reducing costs while helping municipalities to comply with new stringent mandates. · Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet. . Additional Colorado Representatives.

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Transcript of How to Integrate Chat Into Your Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

It used to be that you could be doing only one channel, only one digital channel, that has direct marketing, which is email. If somebody was wondering what are… What is the difference between those green bubbles and blue bubbles. Mike Yan: And now you’re entering into this world where 2.5

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

I found your really interesting piece while looking for evidence underpinning some received wisdom in the world of direct marketing: that charity appeals using a serif font are more successful than the same appeals if they use a sans serif font. Kate D says: January 1, 2012 at 1:52 pm.