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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). This led me down a murky path into the world of SEO and digital marketing. Further to this I was always fascinated by just how bad most the SEO and digital marketing companies were.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. In 2004 I began blogging.

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6 Ways to Create Buzzworthy Content

Duct Tape Marketing

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. With enough exposure and a form of content that pushes these buttons, people will be guaranteed to spread the word.

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