Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the search tool provided to see what’s available in your area. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

With 7 billion people on the planet today, there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions, up from just 720 million in 2000. This cat is out of the bag, driving prices down, democratizing search and supply between branded chains and independent properties. Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Remember the dot com boom between 1995-2000? The bust started on March 11th in 2000. When you buy a stock of Apple, Alphabet or Amazon, their prices may well be depressed for a period, but it doesn’t stop people buying iPhones, searching or ordering online. In five short years, the Nasdaq rose 570% (chart below).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2020 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. We also recognized that Prime Office Space is a phrase that people looking for office space online naturally search for, so it helps with our visibility in search results. We wanted to say no to Tingo!

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. In order to do this, you need to set your website up like a “hub” for your industry that attracts visitors naturally through search engines , blogging , and social media.

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Asia Las Vegas Marketing Technical Review 100

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. How does server response time impact SEO? Conclusion.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

Google was the 11th major search engine, not the first. Their technology proved superior, but "a better search engine" was hardly a new idea. In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2017

This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Ahrefs and I’m giving away a full year subscription to this awesome tool that helps you with search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. Click here to see how you can enter to win a full year of this tool ($2000 value).

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

There are millions of chess players in the world, and I believe the vast majority of serious players know their ELO ranking and also know exactly what it means to be 1000, 1500, or 2000. Over the past 20 years, they’ve added another 150+ behavioral factors to assess importance and relevance of any webpage to any search query.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2013

To improve accuracy Google and Bing both are attempting to understand what is actually meant by a search and refine results based on things like recency, location, context and of course relevance. Google officially rolled out a new search algorithm recently that employs a great deal of their progress in semantic search.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. And it brings us to the definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Microsoft Windows 3.0). customer segments, such as users and payers or moms or teens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Since December, Via Codigo's clients can query for Via Codigo as a special skill using Transformify's search engine, and easily hire Via Codigo developers. It began working in Peru 5 years ago and is at the moment training and finding jobs for 2000 vulnerable teenagers for free per year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We discuss the critical skills necessary for content creators to stay competitive and provide insights on the strategic integration of AI for bolstering blog impact and search engine rankings. So everything that I needed in one place, and it's writing really good content all there in five minutes, a 2000 word piece.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Most of us are still searching for the combination of monetization devices that work best for us. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 29, 2021

We all want to see our website ranking on the top of Google search results. Sure, you can go for a paid search campaign to drive more paid traffic to your site. Here’s a 5-point SEO plan to help you improve your online presence and attain better organic search rankings. Using Google Search. But, it is not everlasting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). Primarily targets SMBs. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Those tools now embraced by startups searching for new business models “also happen to have arrived just in time to help existing companies deal with the forces of continual disruption. Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. The lean startup model is not new.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

I took a course on innkeeping through a company in Florida, found through online searches and reviews. I got an SBA loan and purchased my business within months of beginning my search. When 9/11 happened, we had finished our most profitable year in 2000. It may take all your savings and lots of guts to put it all on the line.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 SEO For Facebook Graph Search? Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

2000 Absolutely Free Textures – [link]. Search Engine Marketing Secrets From a Former Bra Specialist – [link]. The Most Powerful Colors Of The Web (Infographics) – [link]. Fresh & Inspirational Showcase of E-Commerce Web Designs – [link]. Typography for lawyers – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. But these long-term LPs are by definition using active managers in search of alpha (i.e. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2018 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 218

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. Search for “social CRM” and “social loyalty” and you’ll find lots of examples of companies linking Facebook and Twitter to their loyalty programs. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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