Successful products of this sort are not just existing goods stripped of some of their features.
His mother was the opposite, a diligent saleswoman for Stanley Home Products, a sort of Amway for brushes, mops and household cleaners.
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The next step is harder, because it requires designing the right sort of products, and then getting even the most distant sales staff to market them adroitly.
Basic products like ethylene are the sort of thing that a sophisticated economy like the US should have left behind.
Our point is that, despite the fact that thousands of companies will be clamoring for the spotlight at CES, we don't expect to see many head-turning products that will make any sort of impact on the mobile industry.
By entrepreneurs I mean specifically the narrow class the term has come to define in the last decade: specifically technology entrepreneurs who start companies to build products or services with some sort of technological innovation at its core, with the Internet playing an important role in the venture.
The big business intelligence players have taken notice and are attempting to provide this sort of capability in their products.
The Chamber says companies need to know where they can be sued to predict what sort of liability they will incur by selling products.
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WordPress and MoveableType offer the same sort of escape hatch in their open-source based products.
And if CES can be regarded as a sort of testing ground for those far-off conceptual products like the foldable display, crowdfunding has that very thing built-in.
And selling not just sort-of-kind-of male-ish products or services, but companies named for what they do The Good MEN Project and The Ministry of Supply: Reinventing Dress Shirts for MEN?
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After all, wireless keyboards would never need USB 3.0 speeds unless some sort of display were integrated, and particularly in cheaper products, using an older USB chipset could help keep costs down and MSRPs lower.
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In the crush of companies and products struggling to be noticed, those that survive will be those with the sort of scale and organisation of the big media houses.
And while retailers sort through the current crop of social selling tools, manufacturers of consumer products want to know if Facebook will emerge as a viable sales channel for their brands.
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But it needed institutional clients in America, every sort of client in Europe, and a wider, more sophisticated range of products.
With market dynamics of that sort, history is a decisive determinant of the dominant selection that will emerge from the array of contending products and technologies.
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