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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

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Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Openly reward employees who make the extra effort, champion cost-cutting issues, and enhance the sales process. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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ReachLocal Launches Trio Of Products, Targets Home Services

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ReachSite helps provide search engine optimization, content optimization, and lead capture for companies, to help companies convert visitors into customers.

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

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Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Openly reward employees who make the extra effort, champion cost-cutting issues, and enhance the sales process. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page.

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How to Get Your E-commerce Site Noticed In A Global Market

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As the Internet continues to become populated with e-commerce sites, it’s becoming more and more difficult to generate web traffic, leads, and ultimate the sales for your website. Another important search engine optimization involves creating high-quality and relevant back links towards your website.

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8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Startup Professionals Musings

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Openly reward employees who make the extra effort, champion cost-cutting issues, and enhance the sales process. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Assume Your Market is People Like You, Then Fail

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Make sales and customer service friendly. Create and maintain your own database of targeted prospects, and don’t rely on generic email lists for marketing. Use social media, search engine optimization, blogging, and mobile media. It says “I see you, I value you, and I want you.” Proactively deal with naysayers.