This is a great list for anyone considering starting a business or running a business. 10 Things MBA Schools Won’t Teach You is the latest post on Dharmesh Shah’s site, OnStartups.com.
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Postcard Design
Announcements, Portfolio, PostcardsPostcards are a great medium. Their size and shape recalls that of a poster and they allow for more visual appeal because of that. If you subscribe to the notion that your advertising efforts should strive for the pin-up factor (the idea that someone might pin your ad to their cubicle), then postcards are a medium that you should seriously consider.
The Top 11 Best Things About WordCamp SF 2009
News&Views, WordPressThis weekend I attended my first WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco 2009. And here are the top 11 best things about the day’s events.
Building an emotional bond with your customers.
Advertising Rules, TipsRick Newman, in U.S. News & World Report, wrote a piece about Netflix’s Reed Hastings, “One CEO Who Gets It.”
Beyond Hastings’ proposal that anybody who earns over $1 million should be taxed at 50 percent, instead of having their salaries capped at $500,000, Newman identifies what Hastings apparently knows and what the Wall Street fatcats don’t, which is how vitally important it is for companies “to form an emotional bond” with their customers.
ABDF Postcard/Handout
Announcements, TipsAs a word-of-mouth marketing campaign for the non-profit The American-Batticaloa Development Fund, An Ad Guy has prepared this 4×6 postcard/handout.