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Mail That Caters To Kids With A Side Of Education

Sher-Lee’s kids were intrigued by the idea of receiving mail but, unfortunately, they almost never received any. Inspired by their interest, Sherri-Lee formulated a business that would deliver postcards to those kids who loved to receive mail.

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35 Minute Video: How To Make Facebook Make You Money

Facebook Fan Pages are changing marketing for the better. Watch this video and find out how.

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What Were They Thinking?


Entrepreneur:

A closer look at marketing ideas that were good in theory but failed miserably. Despite the best-laid plans, history is littered with tales of businesses whose marketing stunts ran amok. To help you learn from other business’s mistakes–and avoid these PR nightmares–here’s the final installment in this week-long series of marketing stunts that flopped.

Pontiac.

Two years ago, Oprah Winfrey gave away a Pontiac to each member of her studio audience–her entire audience–for free one day.

Sure, audience members were thrilled, but who actually today remembers that the car given away was a Pontiac?

Everybody was applauding Oprah Winfrey for her generosity, but not Pontiac, which came up with the idea for the giveaway.

The Lesson: While it can be useful to partner with a bigger entity than yourself, if you partner with somebody really big, every time you’re in the same room, you might find that you’ve simply become a prop.

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  • Will its for the ratings, that is what happen, coz i watch it on tv when Oprah gives that pontiac cars to her audience and not just one car but hundred of cars,even if its a pontiac but still people wants to have a new car and Oprah did it to his followers, that is a good strategy to get the ratings.that is a good idea of business!

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