.COM Failure Marketing and the .COM Bust Why Marketing? The .COM bust‚ the .COM “bubble”‚ the failure of companies that “dot-bombed”‚ happened more than a decade ago‚ but the lessons learned are important for the present tech sector. Many investors argue that we are in a bubble now‚ with companies like Instagram selling for $1 billion and hundreds of others getting million dollar valuations. Looking back‚ it’s clear from a marketing perspective current aspects of the products and websites themselves
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The War on Drugs Megen Smith COM/172 March 12‚ 2012 Angela Gist University of Phoenix Despite large amounts of government funding and agencies working together the war on drugs is the most counterproductive measure the United States has launched because its main focus was to stop drug trafficking and criminal activity‚ but it has done nothing but increase incarceration and large amounts of spending by the U.S. One of the first bills introduced to the United States was the National Prohibition
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David Gill COM/105 Analyzing Written Essays • What are the four types of essay organization discussed in the course readings? What characteristics make these essays expository? The four types of essay organizations discussed in the course readings are topic‚ time order‚ space order and informative process. The characteristics that make these essays expository are a defined thesis in the introduction‚ evidence in each paragraph to support the thesis‚ information presented in a non-biased
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Adrian Hall COM 200: Interpersonal Communication After reading the article “Close Relationship Sometimes Mask Poor Communication” it made me realize that I and my wife have poor communication skills. We been together for a good two years and we still haven’t gotten the proper communication between each other. She likes to be rude and cut me off while I’m trying to prove a point because she always thinks she’s right when clearly at times she’s wrong but won’t admit it. She always wants materialistic
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Business Ethics Final Project Extraordinary Circumstances Stephanie Burg 2/16/2009 Table of Contents Mission Statement 3 Ethical Principles/Tenets 4 Day to Day Operations 5 Cynthia Cooper and the Culture 6 Conclusion 8 Works Cited 10 1)Provide a Mission Statement and brief background about WorldCom. Briefly explain how WorldCom did not honor their statement. WorldCom - "our objective is to be the most profitable ‚ single source provider of communications services to customers around
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securities fraud‚ however they defended themselves to say that they were forced to cover things up by other top officials. As reading through the questions given in class it was hard to completely gather all thoughts into one area. We know that World Com is a for profit organization that provided telecommunications to
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In 2006 (RED) launched a new way to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa by partnering with major corporations like Apple and Starbucks. To date‚ (RED) has raised $200‚000‚000.00 (200 million) to help fund AIDS treatment in Africa. Without that $200 million‚ approximately 14 million people would not have received treatment‚ and most likely would not be here today. In the United States‚ most HIV/AIDS treatment is covered under insurance and does not require the raising of donations for the
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COM 3029 Media Studies: Policy Management and media representation Semester 1‚ 2012 Student number: 35373385 Table of contents Page no. 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………..3 1.1 History of communication policy……………………………………….5 1.2 Freedom of the media…………………………………………………..6 1.3 Policy analysis……………………………………………………………9 2. Representation………………………………………………………….12 2.1. Media Representation of Race……………………………………….12 2.1.1 Racism as an ideology………………………………………………12 2
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THANK YOU FOR CALLING COMDATA. THIS IS LYN‚ HOW MAY I HELP YOU? I WILL BE HAPPY TO ASSIST YOU WITH THAT. MAY I KNOW TO WHOM THIS IS CHECK IS PAYABLE/MADE OF? THANK YOU FOR CALLING COMDATA ‚ THIS IS LYN‚ I WILL BE HAPPY TO ASSIST YOU IN YOUR TRANSACTION.VERIFYING THE LAST 5 DIGITS OF YOUR EXPRESS CODE IS I’M SO SORRY TO HEAR THAT/I DO APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE‚ HOWEVER I WILL BE HAPPY TO ASSIST YOU IN YOUR CONCERN. REMINDER: ASK MANUAL AUTHORIZATION FOR FUEL=AUTHORIZATION FOR FUEL
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Background Starbucks Coffee Company (Starbucks) was established in 1971 as a fine coffee and tea retailer. In 1985‚ chairman and CEO Howard Schultz transformed the company into what it is today - a global coffee brand built on the knowledge of coffee‚ high-quality products‚ and a passion for educating customers about the merits of coffees and teas. Today‚ Starbucks has grown from its Seattle roots and sells imported coffee‚ premium teas‚ Italian style espresso‚ cold beverages‚ food items and coffee
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