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Seuss, the writer and illustrator behind children’s classics The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! And The Lorax, would have turned 110 on March 2nd. We think that if he were alive today, he would have been a social media master. Vince Vaughn and Co-stars Pose for Idiotic Stock Photos You Can Have for Free. Stock photos have a bad rap.

Vince Vaughn and Co-stars Pose for Idiotic Stock Photos You Can Have for Free

They're campy and cheesy and the butt of plenty of jokes. But what's great about them is they're often the catalyst for promotions or gags—sort of a comedic blank slate. Enter the new Vince Vaughn movie Unfinished Business, which comes out Friday. Twentieth Century Fox has teamed up with iStock by Getty Images to create a set of stock photos featuring Vaugh along with co-stars Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco and others. Students Were Forced to Write BuzzFeed Click-bait For Grades. What Happened Next Will Rock Your World!

By Scott Cowley, {grow} Community Member Last year, I blocked BuzzFeed and similar sites from appearing in my Facebook News Feed, partly because I found myself too often engrossed in literary gems like “22 Signs You Are A Sign.”

Students Were Forced to Write BuzzFeed Click-bait For Grades. What Happened Next Will Rock Your World!

Last month, as a university marketing instructor, I made my students produce and promote the same click-bait content I refuse to be subjected to. And I’m glad I did. BuzzFeed’s influence and reach are unmistakable. The media giant now boasts more content sharing volume on Facebook than the New York Times, BBC, or Fox News. In addition to content, BuzzFeed also has a full-featured community CMS where anyone can publish their own articles, listicles, and other “distracticles” on the site. I based a good portion of this project grade on pageviews (1,000 views for max credit), so their promotion plans had to be workable. “We’re really going to write for BuzzFeed?” Stats for top Brands Facebook pages.

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Price. Place. Promotions. How To Calculate Lifetime Value - Infographic. One way to analyze acquisition strategy and estimate marketing costs is to calculate the Lifetime Value (“LTV”) of a customer.

How To Calculate Lifetime Value - Infographic

Roughly defined, LTV is the projected revenue that a customer will generate during their lifetime. In this graphic we’ll briefly cover how to calculate LTV and how to use LTV to help solidify your marketing budget. Special thanks to @avinash. Click on the image below to view an enlarged version of this infographic. View an enlarged version of this Infographic » Click here to download a .pdf version of this infographic. Want to display this infographic on your site? Simply copy and paste the code below into the html of your website to display the infographic presented above: <b>++ Click Image to Enlarge ++</b><br /><a href=" src=" alt="How To Calculate Customer Lifetime Value"></a><br />Source: <a href=" To Calculate Lifetime Value</a>

Market Research: Steve Jobs comments (1:26) Teachthe4ps.com. Test of Strength: Fitness Apps vs. Personal Trainers. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Video ACTIVITY trackers.

Test of Strength: Fitness Apps vs. Personal Trainers

Calorie counters. Phones with heart monitors. Technology companies are clearly fascinated with fitness and health these days. The idea is pretty simple: While personal trainers can create a safe and effective workout, they can be expensive and sometimes inconvenient. So I spent the month of January on a personal fitness challenge, seeing what provided a better workout: a real personal trainer or a personal training app. There are many fitness app options, and a wide range of prices.

Photo Kiqplan is a workout plan sold in stores as a $20 gift card that unlocks a 12-week workout (choose from Slim and Trim, Beer Belly Blaster and others). The Wal-Mart You Don't Know. A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold.

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.

Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! Therein lies the basic conundrum of doing business with the world's largest retailer. Indeed, as Vlasic discovered, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices.

" Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer.