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7 Interesting Marketing Lessons from My Broken Dishwasher

Growthink Blog

Step 1: The first thing I did was go to the Internet to try to solve the problem myself. from a web forum post from Joey in Idaho). Then, this morning, I started thinking about all these steps, and noticed some interesting marketing lessons. I figured you'd find them valuable, so I wanted to share them with you.

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Innovation, like eggs, is cheaper in the country

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

In Internet access! Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy, helped invent TV. They call it a “WISP” or Wireless Internet Service Providers. For many, probably most rural Americans — this had no impact at all. This inequality of access has the USA ranking 26th in the world. And we’re slipping.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Perhaps the biggest culprits of click fraud are robots—malicious computer programs ( botnets ) that automatically scan the internet and subtly carry out clicks, trying to pass as human. For example, if you suddenly notice hundreds of clicks from rural Idaho—and you sell beachwear—you can block that set of addresses.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Internet/Online Only. Internet/Digital Media. Finance/Accounting. Business Development. Marketing/Communications/PR. Production/Printing/Manufacturing. Operations. Companys Focus. Association Publishing. B2B Publishing. City & Regional Publishing. Electronic Data Publisher. Mass Consumer Publshing.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Internet Services. . - Passenger Transportation. - Pet Care & Grooming. Social Services. Storage & Warehousing. Travel Agencies. Business Services (B2B). Consumer Services (B2C). Domain Name/Basic Site. ISP/ASP Services. Software. - California.

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

VC Adventure

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.