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5 Ways to Optimize your Mobile SEO

Mobile

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has traditionally been applied to desktop searches and websites.  However, booming smart phone sales have led to “mobile search” being more than half of local search traffic today!  What not everybody realizes is that Google provides different search engine results…

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How To Make Friends, Influence People, And Boost Sales In 20 Minutes A Day

Contacts

Lead generation and sales prospecting got you down?  What if you could make friends, influence people’s opinion about your product or company, and boost sales in just 20 minutes a day? (No, this isn’t an infomercial, although I realize that intro may have sounded like one.)

 

Generat…

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Is The New Marketing Dashboard From Yahoo Small Business The Answer?

YahooSmallBusiness

I had no idea until recently that Yahoo even had a “Small Business” product. Now, I’m not always up-to-date on each and every app and product available to small business owners, (the internet is a big place after all), but with a company as large as Yahoo, I’m a bit surprised that I hadn’t heard…

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Reasons Your Startup Can Fail

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The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well and no matter what part of the globe you are in people are establishing businesses and startups at every opportunity. In the US hundreds of thousands of business and startups are established every year. These large numbers unfortunately come with a high n…

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Making Sure We Don’t Forget Nature With Project Noah

Project-noah

The last twenty years have seen an explosion of technology that is hard to ignore. In our haste to adopt these tools we tend to overlook who and what we are and where we all live. We are slowly forgetting the outside world and choosing the screen on our monitors as the portal to the world outside of…

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Ranking Deals With Dealupa

DealupaDailyDeals

Deal aggregator sites are popping up all over the place and finding the deal you really want is not as easy as they make it seem. The technology for categorizing the deals and making them easily available for search has not been perfected. This means you have to scroll through countless deals before…

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Using Technology To Eliminate Maternal And Infant Mortality

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Technology is responsible for the level of comfort, convenience and cooperation we enjoy with each other but it is not available everywhere. In countries where there is poor infrastructure the available technology has to be used to provide innovative ways to address many of the debilitating issues t…

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Budget Cuts? Be Careful What You Sacrifice

Budget

With the Economy down and budget cuts on the rise, customer service is often first to be cut.  When money gets tight, telephone operators are replaced with voice recordings, service staff is laid off, and customers suffer the consequences.  Many business owners neglect to see the importance of gre…

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What’s In A Name? A Lot If You Are A Startup

Name

A rose would smell just as sweet with any other name but if you are a startup, the wrong name can put people off. The important thing to remember about the name of your startup is it is the first thing everyone sees about your startup or hears if you are pitching your company. The right name is the …

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Tell The Truth: Because Eventually You Will Be Found Out

Succed

In the words of William Shakespeare, “no legacy is so rich as honesty,” and if you are starting a business, the legacy of honesty you leave behind will be remembered more than other accomplishments. The first word used to describe business people is their honesty or lack thereof and that should…

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Tapping Into LinkedIn’s Potential: 5 Features You Probably Didn’t Know About

Reid

When you hear “LinkedIn” what do you think? Resume-uploading and business-connecting social media, right? But, according to co-founder Reid Hoffman, users are not getting everything they potentially can out of the site. In a recent profile by Wired, Reid says, “People don’t think of it as a pla…

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Angela Benton Wants To Change The Face Of The Tech World With NewME Accelerator

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When you hear “startup company” and picture the team behind it, what do they look like? Probably something like the original Facebook group: white, young, and male. That’s what the vast majority of startup teams look like these days. The tech industry is only 25% female and 1.5% African-Amer…

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How To Get Through To Anyone – The Art Of Persuasion

TheBrain

At some point in time we have all experienced a person we just can’t seem to get through no matter what we do. The conclusion we derive about these types of people is probably not fit to print but one thing we do know is they exist. Mark Goulston M.D believes it is possible to get through to absol…

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The Value Of Boosting Your Pinfluence

PinterestCake

The number of social media sites is growing daily but not all of them have the same impact as the top tier sites. Since it was first introduced two years ago, Pinterest has captured the number three position with an impressive 50 % gain from January to February.

 

Recent Experian report…

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Understanding Your Startup With The Right Analysis

Data

If you had a nickel for every time you heard a business person say “if I had known…” well you know the rest. Before the advent of computers and the internet a lot of decisions were made on experience, gut feeling or hunch. If you were lucky it worked out ok and if it didn’t you didn’t make…

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Financing Your Startup With Convertible Note Seed

Blackboard

If you don’t have a rich uncle who is willing to finance your startup take a deep breath and get ready to make your pitch to countless investors in the hopes of finding one that will take a chance on you. Getting funding is part of the startup process that people dread most because it is time co…

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4 Ways Facebook Is Stupid

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Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. I am not saying facebook the company is stupid, I am saying that everything on facebook kinda is. Now don’t get me wrong, some very smart things happen in the news feed, groups, messages, and chats, but overall when you think about 99% of the things that get commen…

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Is Crowdfunding An Option?

Crowd

So you think or even better you know you have the next great idea but Venture capital firms are not giving you the time of day. Don’t fret because you can fund that great idea using alternative methods and make those large VC firms lament the day they turned you down. VC is a $40 billion per year i…

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Planting The Seed Of Entrepreneurial Spirit In Teenagers

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Convincing a teenager to be an entrepreneur sounds like a difficult proposition but people like Mark Zuckerburg the founder of Facebook are inspiring teens to go after their dreams and not let age be a factor. The beauty of introducing a teenager to entrepreneurship is they don’t see limitations to …

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Blueprint For A Successful Startup

Dream

The dream for your startup may have been conceived in a college dorm or while surfing online. Turning that dream into a successful startup is very possible but you have to have a certain set of skills or surround yourself with people who have them. If you have a great idea, you will soon realize th…

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Creating A Winning Information Product

Marketing

How much information do you want about the product that you are trying to buy? This of course depends on who you are and what you’re buying. Some customers want the nuts and bolts while others only care that it works when they need it to work. This lets you know you can’t just create one informati…

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Bootstrapping PR

SocialMediaPR

If you’re a startup entrepreneur who’s considering hiring PR, but is working with a less-than-Gates budget, chances are you are savvy enough to turn on the computer and start the PR reach, DIY style. Yes, PR pros have many industry contacts and resources, but with the new media landscape affordi…

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The Art Of Listening – Controlling How You React By Listening

Decide

There is an old proverb that says “listening looks easy but it is not simple.” It takes a considerable amount of skill to truly listen and react or not react accordingly. As any experienced manager will tell you it is achieved through the school of hard knocks because even the best personal deve…

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Can You Make Money With Your Old Podcasts?

podcaststudio

If there is one thing that social media has taught us is building relationships creates a long lasting customer base. These relationships are built on interaction and podcasts give you the opportunity to say what you want directly to your customers. Creating podcasts is a very easy process but creat…

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Securing Online Transactions With Escrow.com

Escrow

Online sales transactions can be a risky proposition if you’re not dealing with an established company. Every time you give out your financial information to someone you do not know you run a very high risk of being defrauded. If you are a small startup the majority of your transactions are probably…

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Hire A-Players For Your Startup

A Players For Your Team

Large corporations go out of their way to hire headhunters to look for the best available talent for their company. They know hiring the best person makes the company better, period.  As a startup you might not be able to afford A-Players for your company but you have qualities that a big conglomer…

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Digestible Websites And Second Dates

Websites

Information. We absorb it over breakfast, inhale it during lunch, and devour it for dinner. By the time we’ve gotten to dessert, we simply cannot digest anymore. The next morning you´ll ask yourself, ¨What did I eat yesterday?¨then shrug, and continue on with your daily diet of (mostly) useless i…

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How The Old Guys Got it Right: Business Lessons from Our Founding Fathers

Founding Fathers

A lot has changed in the last century (understatement of…well…the century). We can flip on a light, turn on the TV and connect with 650 million of our closest friends simultaneously. Obviously, these technical phenomenons couldn’t have seen the light of day without a surplus of gusto, entreprene…

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Let Your Business Be A Magnet for The Right Talent

Magnetic

Talent is the engine of any organization the right talent can make your grow and the wrong one can kill you. If the company is an internet startup it is more relevant because these startups operate with minimal staff. Each person must carry their weight and move the organization forward as a unit. S…

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The Motivational Speaker Approach To Selling Your Idea

Expert

One thing motivational speakers do is sell themselves and they are very good at it. Whether you believe in what they do or not by the end of their presentation they will have you standing up and cheering. This is achieved through experience and knowing what people want to hear. If you have an idea a…

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