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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

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6 Keys To Preserving A Positive Business Image Online

Startup Professionals Musings

Luckily, the basic principles for reputation management are the same for both business and personal environments: Actively monitor what people are saying about you. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results. Push negative content out of view.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Optimize your web history and presence. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Optimize your web history and presence. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building.

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense. Great stuff! And it’s surprising how few startup founders think in those terms. And it becomes really important to have that granularity really fast.

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Social Networking

Tech Coast Venture Network

Higher Ranking with Search Engine Optimization. Wikipedia did an excellent job listing the major active social networking websites … and the list keep on growing day in and day out! Here are few of the social networking benefits: Lead Generation. Targeted Messages and Advertising. Two-way conversation.