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Can you create a great customer case study?

Berkonomics

Studies have shown that attention spans for engaging a reader or listener have fallen from eleven seconds to eight seconds on average. Growing weary of paid advertisements. We have grown more than a bit weary of most advertising, no matter in what form. The case study: the best way to reach your target.

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A good case study is worth many paid ads.

Berkonomics

We have grown more than a bit weary of most advertising, no matter in what form. How do you reach an audience that pays less attention to advertising then at any time in the past one hundred years? Dave’s book: Positioning. That story can be in print or in multimedia form.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

socalTECH

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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Netflix Redux: Is It Ever OK to Fire Your Customers?

Both Sides of the Table

You need to invite the press, talk to them, let them ask questions. Of course the press is going to roast you. Basically their reaction is heavily correlated with the press coverage of your rollout. I quick read of the Qwikster Tweet stream talks about “bible studies” and the like. You need some showmanship.

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

“We don’t have budget for that this year” “I don’t believe in social media advertising.” You avoid time wasters: Occasionally when you meet senior executives they will give you negative feedback on your prospects. ” “I’m already in a pilot with one of your competitors.”

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Interview with Matthias Galica, ShareSquare

socalTECH

The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. That's the big opportunity for us, out of home advertising, to make it engaging, and ultimately, measurable. To help it along, we developed some software which makes it easy to create a mobile experience, which corresponds to a QR code you can place on any, real world object.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? Any thoughts on my post?