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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

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So, set your business’s next product design on the path to profitability with the valuable lessons from these 5 positively staggering successful products. The iPhone’s touchscreen was sleeker in design and easier to use than a tradition button-based interface. The iPhone’s industrial design was unprecedented.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. After 3 years as “the business guy” I was now going to get a chance to work with the deeply technical group and earn my reputation. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

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Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. Many coffee shops are designed for relaxation, and collaboration. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

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These efforts and others like them garnered tons of free press coverage for their sponsors, generated millions of impressions, and ultimately led to increased awareness and sales. Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop.

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Pop-ups — Is Annoying Your Customers Worth a Few Newsletter Sign-ups?

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Why web pop-ups have such a tumultuous reputation Now let’s take a look at the history of pop-ups in order to better understand how best to use them. The pop-up ad was designed to dissociate the advertisement from the content on the page and protect the advertiser’s brand. . They’re useful for promoting new or important content.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most.