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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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ReachLocal Launches New SEO Offering

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Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which provides local online marketing for small and medium sized businesses, announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, search engine optimization product, ReachSEO. ReachLocal said the new software helps SMBs to drive organic search traffic to their websites. READ MORE>>.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business.

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Insights and Opinions: The 3 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

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The 3 methods are so dead simple and obvious that this blog post will likely come across as pointless to anyone in the internet space. Organic Search  learn how to show up in Google's free, organic search results. Organic Search  learn how to show up in Google's free, organic search results.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Concerns Keeping You From Social Media

Tech Coast Venture Network

Even every platform has a help resource – LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter , MySpace … blogging platforms… all showing you and explaining what it is about and how you can get started… Visit YouTube and type about any topic and you can simply watch unlimited number of videos about Social media.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

If you do all these things right as a search results advertiser, you will make money from selling your product. If you do all these things right by displaying other people’s ads on your website or blog, you will make money from advertising – like Google and Facebook, who offer services for free, and still make millions in revenue.