Will kids eat more vegetables if they have catchy brand names)? First, the team tested the effect of positive branding on kids in their choice of one vegetable: carrots. For three days, in 5 school lunch rooms in economically diverse areas, cooked carrots were served. On days one and three, no descriptive labels were placed […]
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Today’s marketing mix is a collection of both online and offline avenues. In order to run a successful business, you are going to need an online presence and an offline presence as well. Print and digital marketing tools work together to make a business successful. It is this marketing mix that will get your company
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
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Want to make a million selling hotdogs? This guy made a million dollars selling a book about selling hotdogs! His website HotDogCartProfits.com has generated over $1 million dollars! TechCrunch has more: “I wrote a 5,000-word sales letter and then I just bought the phrase on Google ‘I want to start a hot dog cart,’ and
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The Swisscopter Dragonfly is a small helicopter with rocket engines on the ends of its rotors blades to make them spin. PopSci: The copter makes use of tiny hydrogen-peroxide-powered rocket motors on the tips of the blades, which replaces the traditional engine-powered rotor. Large fuel tanks surrounding the pilot allow the Dragonfly to travel at
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When a child is too sick to go to day care or school, working parents often have little choice but to stay home and miss work themselves. Not so for those who live in and around Kennewick, Washington, however, where a new company offers bed rest and supervised nursing care for kids with low-level but
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Neatorama: An industrial designer and an orthopedic surgeon realized that prosthetic legs don’t have to be dull, ordinary and plastic. They could be extraordinary expressions of personal body art. So they founded Bespoke Innovations, a firm which designs and produces fairings that fit over pre-existing prosthetic legs.
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Need a new idea for a restaurant? How about World War II food? One restaurant in the UK is serving recreations of the (mostly horrible) food eating in Britain during WWII’s rationing period. BoingBoing has more.
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