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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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7 Keys To An Engaging Framework For Social Media Mktg

Startup Professionals Musings

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.”

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7 Steps To A Winning Social Media Marketing Campaign

Startup Professionals Musings

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

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Start With a Business Blog as Your Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Leverage blog content.

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

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It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. How do people drive SEO growth?

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