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3 Important Facebook Marketing Trends in 2016

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Costs for advertising on Facebook are increasing, due to high demand, and their profits continue to soar. How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? If your competitor is spending more on social network advertising, so should you. Here is the breakdown of these 3 factors to watch in 2016: 1.

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8 Challenges To Overcome In The Growth Of Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people have heard of Foursquare for local nightlife and Airbnb for rooms, but other nationally recognized sources for local services are still hard to find, including social media, local news, advertising, and event calendars. I still hear often the dream of a free service to users, supported by advertising, per the Facebook model.

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8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Startup Professionals Musings

There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. Real growth requires new and innovative ways to find customers, as well as old-fashioned advertising and email blasts. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/22/2016. Ask every employee to focus on sales.

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8 Initiatives To Make Your Customers Loyal Advocates

Startup Professionals Musings

It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition. Maybe you still remember the days when competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power and service versus price. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/14/2016.

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How To Make Digital Marketing Excel For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums. Every entrepreneur needs a strategy, and some metrics to measure what’s working and how much it costs. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/08/2016.

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Interview with Jay Goss, exactly.me

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Jay Goss: I got involved around April of 2016, as the company was putting the final pieces together on the app. We now have a really good, four-person marketing team which is doing different parts of what we think of as an omni-channel marketing campaign for the company, which includes Facebook advertising, PR, and influencer marketing.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Then you need to understand the economic benefit to the user. It it just more time that they save? Efficiency?

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