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

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The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. Lipitor (1997). Lipitor, an LDL (bad) cholesterol-lowering statin drug with sales in excess of $141 billion , is one of the best-selling products of all time. In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg.

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

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This was pre Internet. 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. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe.

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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. Thorough internet search. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee. Pros: Keeps grievous violations at bay.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most. That’s it. That’s what we do. Thanks to Eileen Gittins, Blurb ! #2)