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Growing a Profitable Marketing Consulting Practice: My First Year as a Duct Tape Marketing Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

Despite not joining John’s network of consultants at the time, he now had a fan, and I followed much of his content going forward, including reading Duct Tape Marketing and SEO for Growth. (I I enjoy how John and Duct Tape Marketing clarify online marketing in such simple terms, especially search engine optimization (SEO).

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

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Google SEO went into free fall from first week of April until middle of May for refinements. Lame SEO people called it Penguin to justify to clients why SEO had fallen. SEO, as relevant as MySpace and Google Buzz in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century mobile marketing era. Register here. Print Story. Email Story.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models – [link]. How Google+ Is Changing the Web, Even Though No One Wants It To – [link]. Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011 - [link]. 10 Crimes a Web Designer can Commit on Call to Action Pages – [link].

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. I offered myself as an internet marketer (doing SEO, PPC and so on). It all started in Dubai. I was 25 years old. They all declined.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Appcelerator Titanium Appcelerator’s Titanium platform was designed from the offset to help web developers create mobile and tablet applications with ease. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. Best Buy uses RDFa and has shown a 30% increase in their SEO efforts. Jay Myers – Best Buy.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

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Claiming False Competitive Advantages The following are not competitive advantages: “We’re better at SEO;&# “We’re better at social media;&# “We’re good at design;&# “We have a unique feature;&# “We’re passionate;&# “We’re less expensive.&# All Rights Reserved. startupcto