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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). Tracking and performance reporting.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. New and relevant content on a regular basis is a major driver in search engine optimization, as well as the inbound and outbound links that blog comments generate.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

With Google or Amazon , you can get all the application storage and computing power you need without even thinking about an IT staff and big up-front costs for computer servers and applications. Don’t sign up for outside search-engine optimization, public relations or other experts until your business is generating revenue.

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Every Startup Should Assume Pivots Will Be Required

Startup Professionals Musings

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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