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7 Ways To Promote Your Services Business By Blogging

Startup Professionals Musings

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Finally, if you don’t have the time, energy, or skills to write a blog, it may be a good investment to hire a ghost writer, or hand the job over to your marketing executive. Add outgoing links.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. I see this all of the time in financial services.

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

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Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book?

Marketing 379
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For a Services Business, a Blog Trumps a Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Finally, if you don’t have the time, energy, or skills to write a blog, it may be a good investment to hire a ghost writer, or hand the job over to your marketing executive. Add outgoing links.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? They sell accounting services. Think about Luma Partners.

Marketing 389