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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020

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Ben Shapiro got his start at eBay, where he served as their manager of business development and SEO. He then went on to found his own business and run marketing for a number of early-stage startups. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

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And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content. So really, it’s like old-school SEO, although we never use those letters ever. That’s just not what we do.

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TinySeed Applications Open January 18th

Software By Rob

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. 2: We Focus on Early Stage SaaS. We’re a SaaS accelerator, and accelerators focus on early-stage companies.

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My Very Initial Take on Empire Avenue

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Now, that may not be enough for some to trudge through learning another interface, but I think it’s reason enough to recommend you put it on your radar of things to look at while it’s still in the early stages. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

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Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns.

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