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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

It started in 2002. I arrived here in 2002, as the debris from the dot com crash was still being cleared away. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. The answer is @BookMerah. AOL was going strong and the books sold on Amazon were made of paper. Got a question?

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How To Create A Know-It-All Company - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Employees create on average 225 new entries in the system every day, and in 2002, the site received 1.7 Comments Digg This. 100,000 retail value. Out of a total workforce of 30,000, more than 16,000 have voluntarily registered for the SiteScape knowledge portal. million page views, a testament to the power of neural networking.

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Why Do Customers Tattoo Themselves with the Brands They Love?

Bill Hartzer

If you operate a retail store with cooking supplies you might ask: – What is your ideal customer experience when you enter our store? He is the author of Cult Branding Workbook (2008), co-author of The Power of Cult Branding (2002), and Why We Talk: The Truth Behind Word-of-Mouth (2007). Start by understanding your customers.

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