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7 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Consider When Setting Up Social Media Accounts

Belle Beth Cooper ● February 19th, 2013 ● Business, Marketing | Tagged social media, social media marketing ● 2 comments
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Setting up a new business on social networks takes much more than filling in a form. Lots of the most important aspects are easily overlooked when creating a new business profile or page. Maintaining consistency across the web with your …Continue reading →

Getting Started with Customer Development for Your Startup

Belle Beth Cooper ● February 5th, 2013 ● Business, Marketing | Tagged customer development, customer interviews, ryan carson, steve blanks ● 1 comment
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Treehouse’s own CEO, Ryan Carson, wrote a post on the Treehouse blog recently about an experience he had of “getting out of the building.” It was one of those classic examples that all the best Customer Development books have, of …Continue reading →

9 SEO Leaders Reveal Their Most Significant SEO Wins

Eric Siu ● January 21st, 2013 ● Business, Make a Website, Marketing, SEO, Start a Business ● 26 comments
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SEO isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s such an efficient customer acquisition channel that companies such as Amazon and Airbnb have specifically carved out SEO roles to make sure their organic search efforts are going at full speed. However, SEO …Continue reading →

Screencasts: An Easy Solution for Video Marketing

Dan Gorgone ● December 27th, 2012 ● Business, Marketing, Start a Business | Tagged marketing, screencasts, video marketing ● 1 comment
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Video is one type of content that many marketers may feel hesitant to consider when promoting their business. Nobody wants to watch a commercial, you might think, and in many cases you’re right. Add to that the barriers of video …Continue reading →

10 Tips for Building and Selling a Premium WordPress Theme

Zac Gordon ● December 12th, 2012 ● Marketing, Web Industry, WordPress ● 1 comment
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Selling premium WordPress themes has become a niche in and of itself for developers.  This article suggests some of the important factors to consider when developing and marketing WordPress premium themes. Research and Choose a Niche for Your Theme Often …Continue reading →

Why Not Having Enough Landing Pages Is A Critical Mistake

Eric Siu ● December 6th, 2012 ● Business, Marketing, Start a Business | Tagged conversion rate optimization, landing page optimization ● 1 comment
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If you have a few landing pages, but they aren’t coordinated and they aren’t placed on your website in any particular logical order you need to immediately fix this problem. It’s not just a matter of strategy, it’s also a …Continue reading →

Want Blog Traffic? Stop Making These Content Marketing Mistakes

Eric Siu ● November 26th, 2012 ● Marketing, Start a Business | Tagged blog marketing, content marketing, marketing ● 4 comments
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Content marketing can be an asset to your company if its used well, but it can also become a gigantic liability if the execution is poor. When done well, content marketing will increase your traffic and increase the number of …Continue reading →

Forget the Funnel: New User Acquisition is a Target and You Need a Bullseye

Belle Beth Cooper ● November 23rd, 2012 ● Business, Marketing | Tagged new user acquisition ● 3 comments
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We like to picture new user acquisition as a funnel. It makes sense to us, because it’s what we’ve always done. But for many startups, there’s a fundamental problem with this analogy. The Funnel The funnel representation assumes that every …Continue reading →

Do You Love What You Do?

Dan Gorgone ● November 1st, 2012 ● Marketing, Start a Business | Tagged Business, marketing, social media ● 3 comments
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During the Halloween season, my family enjoyed visiting the home of a professional designer of holiday light shows. Every year, he sets up an elaborate scene with flashing lights and other effects, and adds ghosts, skeletons, and zombies to the …Continue reading →

A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First Web Development Client

Demian Farnworth ● October 11th, 2012 ● Business, Learn to Code, Marketing | Tagged marketing, web development, web development jobs ● 12 comments
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Freelancing is a seductive work option. You get to control your time, your income and your career. You also get to control your skill set. You accept the projects that will help you grow and decline projects that will not. …Continue reading →

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