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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.

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The Danger of Crocodile Sales

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I’d like to talk about Crocodile Salesmen in 3 scenarios: 1) when YOU are selling (or someone on your team), 2) when you are trying to recruit a sales person. But how to apply “listening&# in a sales meeting? But DO NOT crocodile into your solution page. Beware of Crocodile Sales. They are seldom productive.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. Rarely is there alignment between sales and marketing. Long sales cycles obscure beginning and end of costs.

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated. Status of the solution.

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How to Acquire Customers by Marketing “Heroes”

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Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We are evangelists.

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Doing the Right Thing > Doing Things Right

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Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

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