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## [The Smartest Acquisition Strategies of All Time](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/the-smartest-acquisition-strategies-of-all-time)

“What is the most clever customer acquisition strategy you’ve ever seen?,” investor Patrick OShaughnessy asked the Twitter-verse recently. 

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) May 10, 2021 8:53:18 PM

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## [Curiosity May Have Killed the Cat, But It’ll Grow Your Business Like Crazy](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/curiosity-may-have-killed-the-cat-but-itll-grow-your-business-like-crazy)

When it comes to growing a business, our guy Sam Parr is a bit of a coyote trickster. He’s a benevolent troublemaker whose tactics are reminiscent of showmen like P.T. Barnum, Ben Franklin, and others. For example:

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) May 4, 2021 2:05:01 AM

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## [Keys to High-Growth Twitter Threads](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/high-growth-twitter-threads)

If you go viral once on Twitter, you’re lucky. Twice? You’re good. Over the last month, *The Hustle*’s **Alex Garcia** has written [tweet threads](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/create-a-thread) that have gone viral again, and again, and again.

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Apr 27, 2021 3:52:59 AM

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## [Bringing Difficult Products to Market: Lessons from Cannabis Brands](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/bringing-difficult-products-to-market-lessons-from-cannabis-brands)

Building any company is hard, but it’s especially challenging for those in the so-called vice industries like cannabis, which face extra obstacles in:

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Apr 20, 2021 4:35:54 AM

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## [The Hidden Innovators of the Exponential Age](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/hidden-innovators)

When we talk about innovation, it’s common to talk about the same few subjects. Trillion-dollar tech companies or large-scale projects like Bitcoin get tons of media attention.

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Apr 13, 2021 1:24:28 AM

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## [The Power of Emotional Contrast in Marketing](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/contrast-marketing)

The average supermarket carries [~47k products](https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/03/too-many-product-choices-in-supermarkets/index.htm#:~:text=We%20eyeballed%2053%20varieties.,Marketing%20Institute%2C%20a%20trade%20group.), many of which compete against each other for your attention. To survive, great CPG brands must master the art of standing out.

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Apr 5, 2021 2:56:46 PM

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## [The Tools Behind a 7-Figure Newsletter](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/newsletter-software)

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[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Mar 15, 2021 11:01:15 AM

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## [The Lucrative Business of Review Sites](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/the-lucrative-business-of-review-sites)

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[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Jan 25, 2021 9:16:34 PM

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## [Trends’ 2020 Hits and Misses](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/trends-2020-hits-and-misses)

*A year ago, when we *[*asked*](https://trends.co/articles/business-trends-2020-predictions/)* ourselves and the Trends family to predict where things were headed for 2020, we had no idea what a roller-coaster year was ahead.*

[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Jan 4, 2021 6:46:14 PM

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## [Trends Audio! Including bonuses with guests like Andrew Wilkinson, Jack Butcher, and Ryan Hoover](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/articles/trends-audio-newsletter)

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[ Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) Nov 16, 2020 3:47:00 AM