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The 6 Most Disastrous Product Launches Ever – And What You Can Learn From Them

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If you’ve ever created a product only to see it fall flat on its face then take heed. You may think that the big brands like Coke and IBM, with all the resources at their …

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Decoded: 17 Secrets to Jay-Z’s Entrepreneurial Success

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The record industry is known for chewing musicians up and spitting them out. Apparently Jay-Z didn’t get the memo. In the last 20 years, Jay-Z (a.k.a. Shawn Carter) has amassed a personal worth of $450 …

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How Apple Became the World’s Most Valuable Company

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Let me take you back for a moment to 1997. Stock in Apple Inc. was trading at a ten-year low ($13 per share). The Macintosh was outdated, the Newton had flopped, and Apple’s board of …

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10 Facebook Promotion Tips You Don’t Know About

10 Facebook Promotion Tips You Don't Know About

All of these tips listed here today are new tips that I have personally come up with, tried, tested, and have had proven results with. When you build your fans, you need to build on…

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Google Follows These 8 Simple Rules (and So Should You)

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It’s Google’s world. They’re just nice enough to let us live in it. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google out of a dorm room in 1998, they had no idea that it would …

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20 Best Designed Pricing Comparison Tables

Best Designed Pricing Comparison Tables

One of the most effective things you can do to help a customer buy from you is help them choose what to buy. When you have multiple options for them to consider, the best way …

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10 Design Elements All Big Blogs Have In Common

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To help you set the foundation for your blog design, I’ve listed 10 design elements that almost all big blogs have in common and how you can implement them on your WordPress blog. …

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30 Great Examples of Blog Post Styling

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Last week I spotlighted 30 of the internet’s best designed blogs. A brilliant header, clean sidebar, and minimalist footer can go a long way towards making a blog look good. But the one area that’s …

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30 Best Designed Blogs of 2011

“Ooh, that’s different!” Yep, the latest Income Diary redesign brings the total number of major redesigns of this site up to five in three years. That’s how much emphasis Michael puts on having a good-looking, …

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10 Top Websites For WordPress Lovers

10 Top Websites For WordPress Lovers

Wordpress is the software that runs my blog and pretty much every other popular blog on the internet. We all use it, it’s the best. Why would anyone put themselves at a disadvantage and use…

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