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

Both Sides of the Table

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. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. How do people drive SEO growth?

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? So how exactly do you break out then? And they back it up with data.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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10 Steps to a Memorable Website for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). The truth is that we work in a very small, tight-knit industry and news & plans spread fast. Nobody likes writing re-hashed stories. Not everyone has a spare 40 mill for a re-do.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. Share with them how excited you are, ask them what they think and find out if there is one person they can share the good news with. Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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10 Keys to Making an Entrepreneur Website Credible

Startup Professionals Musings

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking.