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Delicious Closing Leaves a Bad Taste in My Mouth

This is going to be BIG.

This was the first time I had ever heard about del.icio.us (I still like to use the old naming convention)… note the date. We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. Once I did start using it, I got hooked. It was great to watch it grow and develop. The caption: “ This is del.icio.us.

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Why Customer Experience Is the Key to an Amazing Business

Duct Tape Marketing

So I started urging them and now anyone who will listen to choose a customer about once a quarter and make them a customer experience guinea pig of sorts. Run everything you do in the name of marketing by them. Give them an awesome deal of some special treatment in return for their feedback on every element of your business.

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5 Ways Buying Facebook Fans Can Hurt Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

With well-known crackdowns on fake accounts from the likes of Facebook in recent years, chances are your new ‘fans’ could suddenly disappear, or worse still, you could be publicly named and shamed. Fake Likes Can Be Harmful.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. That leads to cashing many checks.

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“Bootstrapping is sexy! You own your entire company.” Five Questions with Founder Emily LaFave Olson

Hunter Walker

In addition to being a strong founder, Emily is thoughtful and intention, as evidenced in her recent essay about taking back her maiden name. We were guinea pigs then as the second class! Hunter Walk: Ok, Din is your latest food startup but you’ve worked in food-related businesses for quite a while.

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Twitter Link Roundup #153 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

46 Businesses With Hilariously Bad Names | Business Pundit – [link]. 46 Businesses With Hilariously Bad Names | Business Pundit – [link]. Have India’s poor become human guinea pigs? . “Agencies need to rethink their models and produce something more than just Big Ideas.” ” – [link].

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

of endlessly trying different brands of lashes and adhesive (which hurt my business profits) and unfortunately my clients were the Guinea pigs who were getting inconsistent results because of it (which hurt business profits even more!). The name Mission Lane is derived from my families street address in Bonthe, Sierra Leone, West Africa.