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8 Ways Blogging Can Supercharge Your Business Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. Market your ideas and expertise early for customer feedback. Your blog followers will be your best customers. Hone your writing style for all communication.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

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Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. Connections?

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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If I can help you avoid some of my first-time mistakes it would be a victory. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). It also helps to keep down issues with crowds getting too big, too early. I call this “marketing futures.&#

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How To Build Startup Credibility Before Your Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Cultivate early customers. Find potential partners. Build your brand and get leads today.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. How do people drive SEO growth?

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