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

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It’s not surprising that companies with successful products grow their customer base, increase their revenues, and outperform competitors. 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. Super Mario Bros.”

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Outspoken investor Paul Kedrosky characterizes Color’s reputation: “It’s become a punch line. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product).

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

Up and Running

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. By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. As commerce rose with the web — so did the associated marketing.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most. But I stopped myself, realizing that I didn’t want to bash this small business online and forever tarnish their reputation. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review.