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The 22 Best Blogs to Help Grow Your Business (That You May Not Be Reading)

Up and Running

They’ve been offering training courses and consulting services since 2006, but by their blog, you’d never guess it. Fred Wilson is a widely known blogger and Venture Capitalist who’s been publishing posts daily since 2003. I mean that in the best way possible. AVC’s MBA Mondays | Fred Wilson.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

And I’d been a user since 2006. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm. It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years.

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

Duct Tape Marketing

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

Duct Tape Marketing

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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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

In 2003 I selected and filed on the name All My Best for my copyediting business, a sole proprietorship, in order to hold myself to a higher standard and to imply a promise of high quality to my prospective clients. Eventually we landed on Red Shoes PR. This name came from the first pair of red shoes I bought in 2006.

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Help Me Celebrate National Small Business Week

Duct Tape Marketing

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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003. get to know each other first, etc.