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    Help us choose a slogan!

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    Speed++ Kurt - emergency preparedness professionals (read- old and boring government workers) and agencies struggle mightily with how to reach and engage people of all ages in emergency preparedness. Millions are spent on fear and and "do this because I'm the government and I say so"...
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    Help us choose a slogan!

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    Well the response is a little more than I thought it would be! This has turned into a pretty good marketing/branding exercise, thanks for participating everyone! I am gathering that aside from eating boy scouts and preventing sunshine from going where it shouldn't shine, there are three main...
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    Help us choose a slogan!

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    I would agree, I don't want to patronize or insult people by preaching to them - which is why I like your slogan and the one you voted for the most.
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    Help us choose a slogan!

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    These are great! Speed ++ for that great list Sparlin, that is a huge improvement over what my partner and I came up with! In fact, we may experiment with having multiple slogans for different situations, like Northrop Grumman has done (one corporate slogan with multiple promotional ones on...
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    Help us choose a slogan!

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    I like the call to action in the slogan - would it still be appropriate for business cards and such?
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    Help us choose a slogan!

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    We are looking to replace our currently slogan, "All Disasters Are Local", with something more effective. I was wondering if you guys could vote on what you thought would be the best slogan, which will go right under our text-based logo. The site is www.preparedcity.com - we sell survival kits...
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    SUCCESS! Mini-success story

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    Thanks for point that one out - one of the first lessons I learned is not to trust the product descriptions of the manufacturers! In a rush to get as many products to market as possible I basically copied/pasted their descriptions to my site, which I am finding was not a great idea. I now have...
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    SUCCESS! Mini-success story

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    Thanks! Honestly we hadn't really targeted the military market just yet - right now, since we are only a month old (and don't have a lot of money), we are targeting people who are focused on survival topics, like those that frequent some of the more popular survival blogs (which we have ads up...
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    SUCCESS! Mini-success story

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    (I somehow lost my longer post, so this be a little shorter than intended) Its been a while since I've posted, and for that I apologize. After 5 months of working on my business (in addition to my 9-5 and full time grad school) I have completed my first order (from someone across the country...
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    Thrive During Global Depression?

    I believe a fiat currency is only as good as the weapons of the country printing the currency. I honestly think that we moved from the gold standard to the military standard (the ability to discriminatly kill globally). I might be mistaken, but I believe that in recent history the only time...
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    The One-a-Day Thread

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    "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill Winston Churchill's Never...
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    Need help

    Remember, you want to have a professional evaluate your patent application at some point, whether it be an agent, attorney, or person at the patent office...you don't want to plaster "patent pending" on a product only for that product to fail the patent process. It is worth the <$2000 to get a...
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    Did you take one step?

    I know a lot of people here would disagree with me, but I have found having a partner in my ventures to be one of the best ways to keep me moving forward. I am constantly bouncing off ideas from him, meeting at lunch to talk over stuff, etc. I honestly think that the issue of distraction in...
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    Need help

    Don't forget there are patent ATTORNEYS, and patent AGENTS, both are equally qualified to work on your patent issues, and the patent AGENTS should be far less expensive. Also, some people have had some success with contacting the patent office themselves, and getting advise straight from the...
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    Template vs Custom Build for ecommerce

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    Thanks guys, my partner and I have taken your suggestions to heart, especially biophase's, and we are thrilled that we will be able to get our site up and running for 1/5th of what we originally thought it would cost. This is exactly what this site is for...thanks everyone!
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    Template vs Custom Build for ecommerce

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    Biophase I sent you a PM
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    Template vs Custom Build for ecommerce

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    biophase - Are the ecommerce pages in your signature links modified templates? Is that what I can expect? I like those sites a lot and would gladly pay $1000 for a similar result.
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    Template vs Custom Build for ecommerce

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    My partner and I are in the beginning stages of creating a niche ecommerce web page. We have about $5,000 to spend on the start up, and we are debating whether we should: 1. Use a storefront template, like yahoo storefront, or some other fairly low-medium cost generic ecommerce package 2. Have...
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    What to Expect: Friends and Family Funding

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    I do hear you on not being able to explain ebusinesses...they look at you like a snake oil salesman and then go back to their regular jobs making terrible wages. In fact, your story is similar to mine in that a part of my motivation for starting an ebusiness was watching my dad toil at a very...
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    What to Expect: Friends and Family Funding

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    To be honest I am not sure why I feel that way, and perhaps I wrote the post as a sort of catharsis so I would get over my fear and ask them. I had intended on asking for a no-interest loan with a fixed term of repayment, a contract, etc. I just couldn't really picture the conversation or...

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