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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.

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Ticketmaster Unveils New Web 2.0-style Seat Maps

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Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster , which is the biggest provider of online ticket sales services for sports, entertainment, and other events, said today that it has launched a beta of a new, interactive seat mapping tool. The new, Web 2.0-style

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SharesPost: Sales In Escrow, New Research

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Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Evolving Empyr Unveils Way to Link Online Ads with Offline Sales

Xconomy

When Jon Carder talks about online consumer trends, he speaks with some experience.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

socalTECH

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 I was born in Palos Verdes.

Web 2.0 100
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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. Or they have products that cost $40 / month but that require a direct sales person to close them. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1. If you want to hunt elephants optimize your tools for just that.

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