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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Social Media is a funny place. Enter the new breed, the doctor blogs, the general medical academic blogs, and the nursing blogs taking social media by the horns and making waves. KevinMD – KevinMD is a website founded in 2004 by physician Kevin Pho. There is a new breed of blogger (and vlogger!)

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Social media is high on the radar for CRM and loyalty specialists.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Your brand values should permeate through your entire business and marketing strategy , from external interactions (including social media content) to internal culture (more on that in a bit). Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven.

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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews. Google has started indexing local search results with phrases that accompany things like reviews. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

Of late, however, it looks like they just might be getting their local strategy together and marshaling a suite new features combined with existing assets to put themselves in position to take a giant leap in the local reviews, local offers, and local social games to go with their strong local search position. All rights reserved.

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5 Tech Companies That Have Made It Big And Here’s Why

YoungUpstarts

However, it became the scope of the Google Search Engine that many of us use today. One of the popular social media apps around the world, Facebook is also considered a technological success. Facebook was founded and developed by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.