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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

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

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SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. I rarely only read the post. It’s an awesome implementation.

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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

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Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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Vince Bianco: Newsforce is a premium online network, made up exclusively of digital news sites. That's what our network does, in essence, for our clients. Vince Bianco: The company has been around since 2006, and we started by launching an SEO tool for press releases for professionals. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Administrative specialists. Information specialists.

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10 Steps to a Memorable Website for Your Startup

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Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.