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A Letter To Amazon From A Once-Loyal Customer
I have always been a huge fan of Amazon. Even in the dot com frenzy of the nineties, when companies like Boo.com, pets.com, Webvan and numerous others were sucking in millions of dollars from the...
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How Domino's Took Over The Indian Fast Food Market In A Few Short Years
Domino's has been making major headway in India, thanks to Ajay Kaul, who's the CEO of Jubilant FoodWorks. He took over the business, which franchises Domino's in the region, in 2005, and completely...
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5 Reasons Taking A Second Job Could Help Turn Your Life Around
Whether you are looking for extra cash or to make new friends, getting a second job can help you reach those goals. Many people consider taking a second job to pay off bills, but there are other...
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Frito-Lay Knows Exactly How You Shop For Snacks, And Has Put You Into One Of...
Behavioral researchers are always watching what we do in stores. They're logging our movements, purchasing habits, and much more to figure out what we really do -- not just what we say we're going to...
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Why Gamers Love Working For Facebook Dating-App Developer SNAP Interactive
SNAP Interactive (STVI) launched its dating site AreYouInterested.com, as an app on Facebook in 2007 and became publicly traded in the same year. It's currently the second-largest publicly traded...
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This App Will Automatically Kill Your Pointless Meetings
LBi, a marketing agency, has created an app to help end meeting dependency. The Cost Of Meeting App or C.O.M.A. – which aptly describes what kind of state you retreat to in the face of the constant...
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Employees Say Working At Walmart Is Worse Than Target And Costco (WMT)
Working at Walmart is worse than Target and Costco, according to an employee survey put out by Glassdoor. The jobs site asked 1,800 people to rank everything from employee morale to work-life balance...
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INSTANT MBA: Know Your Competitors Broadly And Your Users Narrowly
Today's advice comes from our interview with Crowded Room CEO Mike Kestenbaum: "Become obsessed with your market — know your competitors broadly and your users narrowly." When Kestenbaum was a Mergers...
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For These 5 Small Companies, 'Business Ethics' Isn't An Oxymoron
The term "ethical company" can seem like an oxymoron since a financial crisis that revealed some of the dirtiest secrets in the mortgage and housing industries. But not every company has grown so...
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You're One Of These 5 Types Of Influencers, And This Has A Huge Impact On...
Effective leadership today relies more than ever on influencing others — impacting their ideas, opinions, and actions. While influence has always been a valuable managerial skill, today's highly...
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Ralph Lauren And Whole Foods Offered Some Great Advice To Small Businesses...
Standing out from big business presents a large challenge to many small-business owners, but those who are able to do so can experience large returns. At the National Retail Federation's 101st Big...
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BEFORE AND AFTER: A London Hotel's Ratings Skyrocket After It Starts Reading...
This series on Customer Relationship Management is brought to you by Microsoft CRM Solutions For anyone planning a vacation, travel website TripAdvisor's customer-written hotel reviews can be a...
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INSTANT MBA: When Making Tough Decisions, Ask "How Will I?" Instead Of...
Today's advice comes our interview with Rory Vaden, founder of Southwestern Consulting and author of upcoming book "Take The Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success." "In any endeavor worth...
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Hostess Employees Are Flipping Out Over How Management Is Handling Bankruptcy
After writing yesterday about how labor costs have played a huge role in Hostess' bankruptcy, we received an email from a long-time Hostess employee. Here's what he said: "Our CEO claims that more...
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11 Crazy Stunts People Have Pulled Off Trying To Get Hired
With unemployment at 8% and the competition for jobs getting tougher than ever, standing out among the hundreds of people applying for the same position isn't always easy. Some job seekers are going...
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Does IKEA Have A Problem Expanding In The US?
IKEA workers in Maryland just voted 183 to 119 to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. It's the second IKEA manufacturer to do so, after a plant in Virginia...
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Compare The Dogs From VW's Super Bowl Teaser To The Actual Star Wars Characters
Deciding to stick with the Star Wars theme, Volkswagen and Deutsch Los Angeles released a teaser for their Super Bowl ad Thursday. "The Bark Side" -- which after only one day has reached almost four...
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11 Absolutely Meaningless Corporate Slogans
Are you sick of your company's tired old slogans? Want to impress your boss with some new ones, filled to the brim with incomprehensible, meaningless corporate jargon? Well, rather than having to...
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8 Tips for Starting a Business
Anyone who has ever started their own business will tell you: It's a lot of hard work. You build it from the ground up, put in countless hours to get it started and extensive efforts to keep it...
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Why Some Startups Succeed And Others Fail: 10 Fascinating Harvard Findings
Why do some startups succeed and others fail? Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein put together a Harvard Business School working paper to answer that question, Performance...
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