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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 28 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). People forgot that Fred also wrote “Web Second.” ” So I’ve had to encourage an entire cohort of startups that I’ve met not to ignore the power of the web. Thus I endorse Web Second. then mobile is awesome.

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Cyber Monday Sales Hit $6.59 Billion, Says Adobe

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Online sales on Cyber Monday hit a record $6.59 billion, the largest online sales day in history, according to numbers released by Adobe late Monday evening. percent year-over-year increase in online sales, as of 10:00 p.m. billion in sales, and Thanksgiving Day, where there was $2.87 billion in sales.

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GumGum Snags Amazon Vet For Sales Efforts

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GumGum , the developer of in-image advertising technology headed by Ophir Tanz, is bolstering its sales efforts, and has hired an Amazon veteran to head up western sales. According to GumGum, Matt Weisbecker has been appointed Vice President, Western Sales for GumGum, a new position for the company. Weisbecker was previously.

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Internet Brands Buys Three Web Sites

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is continuing to buy up small, vertically focused web sites to add to its various consumer focused content networks, saying Wednesday that it has acquired three websites. Tags: domain site acquisition merger brands internet. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TouchCommerce Hires Sales, Marketing VPs

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TouchCommerce provides an online, live chat software product which is used by e-commerce sites to engage with consumers on their web site, and also helps guide consumers to products. sales ecommerce chat executive touchcommerce' Maire was formerly the company''s Country Manger in France. READ MORE>>.

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HauteLook Hacked, Millions Of Account Details Leaked By Hackers

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The personal account details of nearly 28 million users of HauteLook , the private sales site founded in Los Angeles and now owned by Nordstrom , have been hacked and have just shown up for sale on the "dark web" , according to security researchers.

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