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How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning

The Next Web

And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. Fast forward to 2011. So, adhering to Google representatives’ recommendations of creating great content and SEO veterans’ instruction of linking to fresh content, it seems everyone started to guest post in different levels of blogs and content quality. Fast forward to 2014.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. Once you have scale, you can think about building your own sales force.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. Buffer – Live blog the post-mortem. Buffer’s nimble, distributed team came together on Hangouts on a Saturday afternoon and live-blogged developments as their engineers worked behind the scenes to fix the hack and restore services.

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[ADV] Top 5 Ways Social Media Has Changed PR

YoungUpstarts

There was a time, when marketing and PR professionals could take their time, having hours until daily newspaper deadlines. This development caused PR professionals to adopt a new method of communication – social media. This means PR campaigns are becoming more specifically targeted and strategic in their approach. It Takes Two.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Blog Archive. ▼ 2011. (2). What happened? Started on Jan.

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

I am excited to announce nextNY Fellows--a program that will support four new community leaders in 2011 build on what we already have and make it better, all while building their own skills and network. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. . The details of this program are below.

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