Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Clarity is the name of the game. Focus on your designated market area instead. The way your plan is written can give you the edge you need when pitching your dream. ##### Today’s guest blog post is by Mahesh Raj Mohan, a freelance writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. Avoid conversational, first-person writing. (“Hi,

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, you’ve been doing this conference for a few years, and I guess the first question I have is, what’s with the name? ” Rich Brooks: I couldn’t use the same name, and I wanted to bring in search and mobile marketing to the mix, because I feel like social is just one aspect of what we should be doing.

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Portland Social Media Media Naming 76

Andrew Payne

APRIL 20, 2014

Cities want the hospitality tax (Airbnb is moving to collect taxes in New York, San Francisco, and Portland) and the hospitality industry doesn’t want the competition. Can you name any other industry where a manufacturer can’t sell their own product?

San Francisco 57

San Francisco Portland Kansas New York 57

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially.

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. ” Your food truck should have a cohesive design, a clever name, an established brand, and a unique offering. Sometimes, we’d even name the waffle after the Tweeter!

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Revenue Portland Oregon Social Media 60

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables. Applications.

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Be especially ruthless with products and product images: prioritize relevant visuals (namely, high-quality product images) over stuff that’s just “pretty” (e.g. Lastly, the golden rule of simplicity is to add plenty of whitespace to every design. Key takeaway: Great design gets people to trust you and to stick around.

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Conversion Technical Review Audience PPC 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. IKEA stores are designed to wind customers through large, showrooms that showcase a variety of ways in which customers can use IKEA merchandise. billion in sales.

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Architecture New York Chicago China 162

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

” I ordered a CD from CD Baby, I think it was, and they sent the most hilarious shipping notice about the party they were having in downtown Portland, as they lovingly sent my package off to the post office. People submit their designs, they vote on them. I mean, that just made the experience more fun. It was an email.

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Kansas City Lead Generation Software Review Revenue 46

Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

The company is named after their son Jude, who was experiencing health problems before it was determined that he should be on a gluten-free diet. ” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center.

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Oregon Portland Small Business Community 60

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. The name is derived from the Latin words “hora” meaning hour and “azura,” meaning blue. Orazure Hand Roasted Coffee’s call for a new logo received 551 designs. Love to wear many different hats.

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Small Business Kuwait eCommerce Portland 77

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

Actually we even use the visual editor for all the pages and landing pages that we design so go check it out at ducttapemarketing.com we’ll have a special line in the show notes for today and check it out. John: On this front, but hopefully — I was just — you’re in Portland right? ” That sounds terrible.

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Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 34

conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

This mental process has a name. In the 1970s by two psychologists by the names of Tversky and Kahneman theorized that suggesting an initial figure to a test subject caused that subject to use that number as a starting point for estimating unknown quantities. They also changed the name. Right next to a $12 000 watch.

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St. Louis Portland San Diego Sales 111

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Red Wagon has been named “Best of Eugene Frozen Treats” by local newspaper “Eugene Weekly,” and their ice creams have been featured in food blogs and magazines such as “Sunset” and AAA’s “Via.” Increased revenue has gone hand-in-hand with public acclaim. On the wholesale side, he watches the velocity rate.

Oregon 60

Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. I know it’s an uncomfortable contradiction because every time I talk to Andy Baio about it, the conversation starts with, oh, that name. Are you really going to use that name? Because that name. He doesn’t like the name.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Best of all, an eBay business can be anything you want it to be—for example, Lori Cheek, founder of Cheek’d and bootstrap marketing expert, used eBay to resell her designer clothing, which helped fund her startup. Just like Etsy, eBay is incredibly flexible, which makes it a great side business. The company has now earned around $1.65

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Bootstrapping Startup Louisiana Cofounder 60

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2017

This is a tool that we use on the Duct Tape marketing website to thoroughly—for content upgrades, for slide-in boxes, actually we also use the visual editor for all the pages and landing pages that we design. His name is Dr. Paul Ekman and he discovered micro expression. So go check it out at ducttapemarketing.com.

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Networking Vertical Technical Review Matching 45

Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. Several smaller software groups, vfx studios and creative design labs are now benefitting from the movement south.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

His name is Charlie and he responded to our question last week about whether you should stick to the plan or change it. Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. He says, “Hey guys. Great episode.

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Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Graphic design is a notoriously competitive field and it can be tough for companies to stand out. But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. Frog Design. MetaDesign.

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San Francisco Design New York City New York 86

ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2013

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” ” In web design pictures are the design. Relevancy to web design. I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Real people matter.

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Stock Software Review New York Sales 105