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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

When you announce that you’d like to differentiate your company through caring, that notion will sound good to most employees. Once you figure out what this differentiator is, think of it as your ‘caring trademark’ and make it an integral part of your company’s processes. Teach employees how to care. Generally, people want to care.

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How to Present so People will Hear

David Teten

For example, “NET INCREASE IN SOFT DRINK CONSUMPTION” is more informative than “SOFT DRINK CONSUMPTION, 1979-1992.”. For example, “Net increase in coffee consumption” is more informative than “coffee consumption, 1979-1992”. Always differentiate clearly hard numbers from estimate, either in a footnote or with an ‘est.’

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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

ConversionXL

Focus offline conversations on high-value points of differentiation. In 1992, two researchers in New Zealand, Neil Fleming and Colleen Mills, published what became a foundational paper on learning styles. Mastering the nuances of learning styles empowers you to: Choose information formats that potential buyers love.

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How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. Do you have patents or IP wedges that create defensible moats around your differentiation?

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. Here you need to spend your marketing dollars differentiating your product from the incumbents. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM).

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

It also presents an opportunity to differentiate your product or service in a competitive market. Although Michigan lost that 1992 championship game to Duke, The Fab Five surprised everyone by making it as far as they did. Conventional wisdom was thrown out the window, and, for the most part, it had worked.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. Sans serif are better on the web. Ergonomics , 35(10), 1297-1326. Gaultney, V. Mills, C.B.,