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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. Both are wrong.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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He found it was difficult to build an audience up, and really looking into the whole search engine optimization necessary for this kind of long tail content. That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy. Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building.

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8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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Interview with Lolita Carrico, Gloss Network

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I started looking to sell ModernMom and do something strategic a few years ago when I saw that there was a shift in the mom space, where advertisers and brand partners were moving from targeting mass numbers of people, towards niche sites. How's this new venture funded--and actually, how was ModernMom funded? I was very lucky.