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

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In our recent article 7 Epic Product Fails and the Valuable Lessons They Can Teach Your Small Business we explored the important lessons your business can learn from products that spectacularly failed to make the cut. Lipitor (1997). Super Mario games continue to innovate and earn astounding sales numbers today.

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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. The launch, by the way, was a failure. And it’s now bankrupt.) ” Not long ago it was the opposite. .”

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

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For many consumers and small business owners in the U.S. 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. 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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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review.