The Fan Economy: Building Fan Community for Products

... common information, in common places, we were all supposed to become one mass audience – ripe for the picking. Welcome to the recession. Fans don’t just buy our products, they convince their ... to give us a try. Pent-up fan demand for the McFly lead to lines around buildings and pairs going for $2,000 on eBay. Fortunately, the world is far too complex for homogenei...

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... to the business community. Examples include the role of Stanford University in the success of Silicon Valley, the role of the India Technology Institute in the success of Bangalore, and the ... Infrastructure and the Environment 49 6.6 The Western Cape in the Fast Lane of the Information & Communication Super-Highway 52 6.7 The Western Cape as the Most Attrac...

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... has a value of 1 for digital products companies and 0 for physical dot coms. Further, the α ’s and the corresponding levels of inputs in the last four formulations involving the dummy variable ... takes the position that these Internet based companies currently operate in very different ways depending on the nature of the products they sell. As elaborated in the n...

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... was wrong for them, that catalogs could not only work for them, they could even enhance their presence. Then I had to figure out how to turn this into a profitable business for everybody ... critical for you to distinguish between a dream and a fantasy. With a dream, you can design a strategy for getting there. A fantasy is more like winning the lo...

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... and others forthcoming. 2. Blencowe and others forthcoming. 3. March of Dimes, PMNCH, Save the Children and WHO 2012. 4. Lawn and others 2011; Bhutta and others 2011. 5. Pattinson and others ... 2010, the latest year for which estimates are available. 3 Countdown countries account for over 95% of these deaths. The decline has accelerated in the past decade—from 1.9% a year in...

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... in- fancy. The way forward is for MFIs to secure the necessary resources for their enlarged ope- ration, on the one hand, and to reconcile the social objectives of reducing poverty, the in- creasing ... banks into microfinance. On the other hand, commercial banks have started entering the microfinance market themselves. They do so either directly by building their own reta...

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