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Thursday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

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David Meerman Scott David is the author of 7 books, Real-Time Marketing & PR , is his newest addition to the collection. His blog – Web Ink Now – is ranked by AdAge Power 150 as a top worldwide marketing blog.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. Sorry, brah.”

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How Do I Get More Leads in the Top of the Funnel 1 :: Small.

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David Meerman Scott David is the author of 7 books, Real-Time Marketing & PR , is his newest addition to the collection. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win.

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Help Me Celebrate National Small Business Week

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Twenty five guest post in all with five per day all around the topics listed below: Monday May 16 – What is a Marketing Strategy and How Do I Get One?

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. So make sure you have a solid PR strategy. Understanding PR & Crisis Management. How to Work with PR Firms. Make sure good PR is underpinning your fund raising efforts. It’s human nature.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment!