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Read More »How to Win Repeat Business
Keep your customers coming back! Tips from Birchbox founders Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna on inspiring customer loyalty. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/ask-gerber-win-repeat-business.html
Read More »How to Hook a Life-time Customer
Put yourself in the mind of the customer: give them what they want and don't make them pay for it...right away.
Read More »Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thursday, November 24 More than 3 million spectators will line city streets for the parade. | Illustration By Jing Wei Balloons may be just a bunch of hot air, but it takes more than that to keep them afloat when they're giant size
Read More »Unpredictable Rewards: Twitter’s "Activity" Stream And Our Dwindling Attention Reservoir
Does Twitter's Activity and Facebook's Ticker give you anything you really need to know? Not really. But maybe that's not so bad
Read More »Young, Fast, and on a Mission
Social-media advertising start-up Adaptly is less than two years old and is growing at lightning speed. Its founder thinks it's ripe time to add a social mission.
Read More »An Ad Maestro’s Greatest Hits
Stan Richards is the mastermind behind the biggest independently owned ad agency in the nation. Weve gathered some of The Richards Groups greatest hits, as well as one that missed the mark. Here are a dozen of the best-loved advertising campaigns that came from the shop of Stan Richards, the disciplinarian mastermind behind The Richards Group, the nation’s biggest independently owned ad agency
Read More »Citigroup: Expect Amazon Smartphone By End Of 2012, Call Facebook Friends With Skype, PayPal Launches Facebook App
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. New Nokia Phone Stars In Leaked YouTube Video .
Read More »Coca-Cola, Nexus Interactive Arts Unveil Digital Waterfall In Ecuador
The soft drink giant teams up with a top production studio to create an immersive experience so vivid you can practically taste it. Cascada means waterfall. But there's not a drop of H2O falling on visitors to the Cascada exhibit in Quito, Ecuador.
Read More »Protect And Attack: Lenovo’s New Strategy
Once an unlikely rival for HP and Apple, Chinese computer maker Lenovo has grown and adapted as quickly as its homeland. Now, with a savvy blend of East and West, it's poised to be China's first global brand. Leading the PC maker's pursuit of new markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing believes in "replaying the chess board" to keep improving
Read More »3 Proven Strategies To Keep The Internet From Killing Your Productivity
There’s a good chance you’re reading this article during your workday as a distraction from whatever it is you’re supposed to be focusing on at work right now.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Some Pop, Some Lock, Some Move Robotic
Robot Snake Tintanoboa was a real snake, a prehistoric serpent of biblical proportions--it was over 50 feet long and some of them could weigh over a ton. Thankfully he's long extinct, but to demonstrate the scale and scariness of the beast, artist group eatArt from Vancouver are building a robot version . [youtube Ocyhbij9JYQ] Yes, it really is that big--and eventually destined to have a saddle for a brave rider.
Read More »How Silence Changes The Communication Dynamic
Ever wonder what it would be like to remain quiet for an entire week? Not just less talking. I mean no talking.
Read More »LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman On Groupon’s Big Advantage: Big Data
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