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In Their Honor
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| Many remember our nation's veterans only on specific national holidays. Entrepreneurs like Dominique Martucci have found ways to honor them in their everyday lives. |
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Sweetening The Deal: Hershey Tries Chocolate
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| Back at home in Lancaster, Hershey had no capital to start another business, but he still had the vision and the determination. He managed to convince a former employee, Harry Lebkicher, to back his venture financially. Soon thereafter, his mother’s family also came on board. This support allowed Hershey to begin experimenting once again. In a short time, Hershey had perfected a recipe he called ‘Hershey’s Crystal A’, a caramel candy made with the secret weapon he had learned of in Denver: fresh milk. |
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Customer Loyalty Investing In Relationships
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| Most businesses are like African baboons – these furry fellows race through the cornfields, picking corn and stuffing it under their arm. As fast as they stuff the corn under their arm, it falls out the back, but they keep on picking and stuffing... |
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The Cereal King: How W.K. Kellogg Got His Start
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| If it were not for the ingenuity of W.K. Kellogg, the world today might never know flaked cereal. A master marketer and inventor, Kellogg revolutionized the breakfast food industry when he decided to start his own company and sell toasted corn flakes back in 1906. Today, that same company has grown to include almost 26,000 employees and earns over $11.5 billion in revenue. |
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Crunching the Competition: Corn Flakes Take Off
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| In 1906, after disagreeing with his brother about the future of their invention – toasted wheat flakes – Kellogg decided to start his own business. He left his brother’s company and created his own, calling it the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. His first product was, as expected, corn flakes. |
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Lesson #1: Market Your Product as a One of a Kind
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| When Kellogg and his brother first came up with their idea for toasted corn flakes, it was a novel one. But at the same time, there were another 40 companies in Battle Creek, Michigan producing cold cereals. Corn flakes might have been unique, but the breakfast food industry was rapidly growing, and Kellogg knew he had to find a way to make his product stand out from the rest. He found that way through marketing. |
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COLD TO GOLD GETTING THE MOST FROM COLD CALL SET MEETINGS
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| By John Doerr
Like King Midas, as I was told, everything he touched turned to gold.
- Joseph Simmons and Daryl McDaniels
“If I could just get a meeting with my target prospects I am certain I could close five (or six or eight) out of every ten.”
How many of you think the same thing? You know that when you get in front of the prospect you can wow them. Every time a lead comes into the firm and you go on the sales meeting, it's a slam dunk. Made-in-the-shade. Can of corn. You know you'll get the gig.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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| Well, my friends, like the Terminator, politicians named Clinton, the ghosts from the movie Poltergeist, and that corn on the side of your big toe: I’m back. There are just some things that won’t go away. Sorry. |
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Celebrating National Candy Corn Day, October 30th!
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| Building Bridges, the monthly newsletter of Mazon Associates, Inc. focuses on candy corn and the founding family of Jelly Belly Candy Company in our October 2010 issue. |
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