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How To Gain Your First 1000 Customers [Deals]

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One of the biggest challenges with new businesses is acquiring customers. It can be a nightmare when it comes to getting that first customer to buy something on your site or walk in your doors. But thanks to this offer from Cult of Mac Deals, you won’t need to worry about that anymore.

This interactive, step-by-step guide isn’t simplistic courseware or general sales tips, but a comprehensive, real-world process for implementing a successful customer acquisition strategy. You can apply the key tasks unveiled in this guide to your business strategy and start honing your customer base as early as today. – and you can get what you need to do it for only $18!

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Steve Jobs Once Gave This Guy A New Porsche For Selling Just 125 Macs

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Steve Jobs wasn’t known as the most generous man in the world. While working at Atari, he recurited Wozniak to build a version of Pong in a weekend, then lied about how much money was involved and stole the majority of it from his best friend in the world. And when Pixar was just starting up, he’d fire people without any notice and without any severance.

There’s at least one guy out there, though, who thinks Steve Jobs is the most generous guy in the world. In fact, Jobs once gave him a Porsche as a reward for selling the most Macs in the United States. That number? A paltry one hundred and twenty five.

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Business Insider: Ping Is A Flop

Business Insider: Ping Is A Flop

Short of your old Friendster or Myspace accounts, Ping is probably your least-used social network. Heck, if bits and bytes could collect dust, Ping sure would have on my machine.

So my guess is that not even the biggest Apple fan will get too indignant about Business Insider listing Ping amongst their fifteen biggest flops in the tech industry in 2010.

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