crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

In 2012 | TechCrunch – [link]. Tons of great insight from @ randfish about inbound marketing and SEO in this AMA – [link]. | Business 2 Community – [link]. 12 big brands & celebrities that crowdsourced in 2012 | The Next Web – [link]. Best Book Covers Of 2012 For Inspiration – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2012

Be it from being more engaged and active in the social media landscape, especially on Google+ to focusing a larger effort on mobile and local marketing, there are many ways small businesses can increase their overall digital marketing and SEO strategies with little or no additional cost. Get Social, Especially On Google+.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actionable Analysis Analyzing Customer Data Conversion & ROI ROI Marketing Verifying Business Value. SEO Paid Search Search Marketing. Heidi Cohen | December 24, 2012. Actionable marketing tip: Encourage customers to share your information on social media venues. Skip promotional-speak to build customer trust.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link]. Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link]. CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton Hotels By The End Of 2012 – [link]. Customer Service on Twitter: Top Brands Respond To Only 14% Of Tweets | The Realtime Report – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

What Zappos Can Teach You About Becoming Irresistible to Customers – [link]. What Zappos Can Teach You About Becoming Irresistible to Customers – [link]. Because Most SEOs Don’t Know What Strategy Means – [link]. Seven observations on the 2012 Super Bowl ads – [link]. Got Early Startup Competition?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

Meet the new product building trust and transparency in SEO. Scene from SEO spoof video by SearchRPM.com Search engine optimization can be a mystery to even the brightest minds in marketing, but it doesn’t have to be. Enter evisio, a product built by some of the best humans in SEO, designed for any human who needs to use it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Good suggestions on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. Mark Cuban on Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers – [link]. Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) – [link]. Good suggestions on handling customer service questions and issues – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2018

They are the go-to places where customers ask questions, offer accolades, and air complaints. Long-form content for making an SEO impact. While word count is not the only thing that can impact how prominently an article will appear on the search engine results page, SEO experts say long-form content will be able to give you an edge.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Have a great logo and potential customers will immediately feel a certain way about your brand. You need reviews to make prospects understand what it’s like to be a customer. Consolidate your great customer feedback into website testimonials. Make it easy for customers to check in and tag you in social media.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined – Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs – reaches only $310 million. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 16, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. What’s the first thing you want a customer to think in regard to your business? After all, what good is word-of-mouth if your customer tells a friend, “You really should look up my caterer for your next event.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2019

For example, most businesses use Facebook to reach out to their customers and generate leads, but each industry requires a slightly different approach. Back in 2012, Legal Futures reported Twitter as the key referral source for lawyers with an increase of 663% of people asking for lawyer recommendations. Hand over SEO to a pro.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” An early sign of success is customer adoption of the language. link] — Sean Ellis (@SeanEllis) April 27, 2012.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. Also, all this online participation has a variety of helpful side-effects for my business: more consulting leads, link juice to help my SEO out for the product businesses, reputation/credibility enhancement, yadda yadda. asking for email addresses would damage customer confidence. Greatest Hits.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Barack Obama won the 2012 US elections and his data-driven team played a huge part in it. And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. Nate Silver. Any guesses? Don’t.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I took an opportunity selling food trucks and noticed the industry needed improved customer service. At 4Patriots we wanted to present our customers with an enhanced feeling of freedom and self-reliance. After some years with blood, sweat and tears, I founded my current business, Ageras, in 2012. Photo Credit: Kamron Kunce.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2012

Whatever your business is, an ever growing chunk of your target customers are using their mobile devices instead of computers to go online. billion in 2012. PayPal expects to see $7 billion in mobile payment volume in 2012. 80% of customers abandon a mobile site if they have a bad user experience. billion last year to $5.8

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2024

Key Takeaways Chris Martinez’s journey underscores the importance of strategic pivots, understanding customer needs, leveraging technology, building a strong team, and continuous learning. Then I started my first agency in 2012, and basically we were building websites for the worst possible niche, in my opinion, solopreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Although many of my colleagues in the SEO world were surprised when I transitioned into the adjacent world of email marketing a year ago and launched Tidings , I hope you’ll understand why after reading this column. In fact, for many clients, it could be your “foot in the door” on top of which you sell other less concrete services like SEO.

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Email Technical Review Marketing SEO 49

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

It is hard to get overall search keyword performance in GA, so grab this quick custom report All Search Performance and apply the standard advanced segments to it (Non-paid Search Traffic, Paid Search Traffic). Great landing pages equals more customers enticed to engage plus higher conversions plus higher (AdWords) quality score.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

2012 Events. July 12, 2012 12:01 PM. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. July 10, 2012 6:59 PM. July 9, 2012 2:00 PM.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). You need to connect with customers on a human level, make boatloads of sales and grow with Gusto. But we're not there yet. It's called drip.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

10 Ways to Convert More Customers With Psychology [INFOGRAPHIC] – [link]. How ‘Gamification’ Can Make Your Customer Service Worse | Wired – [link]. 10 Ways to Convert More Customers With Psychology [INFOGRAPHIC] – [link]. The Big Decision: Stay Small or Try to Grow – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Pick a free service like Dropbox or Google Drive, or work with a cloud storage company to develop a customized, private cloud server just for your business. Does your business have international customers or clients? Updated SEO with Google Hummingbird. Google launched its newest SEO update, Google Hummingbird, this August.

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

17, 2012, 10:48am PT. Social is the new SEO. SEO is still a major traffic driver for publishers, but search is search is slowly losing its grip — constituting less than 50 percent of traffic sent to publishers — to an exploding number of social referrers. Alternative slugs for SEO testing. Comment threads.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2017

Check out the following tips to help ensure you are using the best SEO practices for 2017. Answering all these things and developing good SEO practices based on this information will automatically help you develop the proper keywords to optimize your site almost effortlessly. Artificial Intelligence Plays a Huge Role in Page Ranks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2017

Instead of choosing topics like the “ 2012 Mayan Apocalypse ,” choose content that is “Evergreen” like “The Beginner’s guide to making pancakes.” The formats of some content are also evergreen and are very active in bringing in traffic and potential customers to a web page. And of course, he was great. The same fact goes for content.

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Jamaica Curation Technical Review Audience 71

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

June 7th, 2012. June 7th, 2012 12:12 pm. June 8th, 2012 1:02 am. June 8th, 2012 7:36 am. June 8th, 2012 1:37 am. June 8th, 2012 2:26 am. June 8th, 2012 7:59 am. June 8th, 2012 2:51 am. User Experience. UI Design. E-Commerce. Essentials. Techniques. Sketching A New Mobile Web. By Dennis Kardys.

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Web Mobile Software Review Design 89

leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

August 7, 2012 by Alistair. Each of these represents a degree of collaboration by a user, and each segment represents a different lifetime customer value. Traffic sources and campaign effectiveness (the SEO stuff, measuring how well you get attention.). 14 Aug 2012. 26 Jul 2012. 23 Jul 2012. 31 Jul 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2011

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012 This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Here are my predictions for 2012. Customer service goes community. The cable provider Comcast launched Comcast Cares , a social media push to repair a poor customer-service perception. But, welcome to the odd world of small business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

EURO 2012 soccer logo: A wonderful exercise in graphic design excess - [link]. Five Areas to Focus On for Effective SEO Copywriting – [link]. “Understanding Freemium – How to Create and Grow Paying Customers&# - [link]. 5 Questions You Should Ask Every Customer - [link]. – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

By Guest Author / April 24, 2012 06:53 AM / View Comments. It has a simple sign-up process, gives one-stop access to all major credit cards, and lets you accept direct payments from other PayPal accounts, which can be very helpful, depending on your customers. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. The channel is sponsored by TriNet.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2012

Whether you sell high fashion products or gourmet food, mobile commerce should be on your checklist of goals for 2012. As a company, you want to reach as many current, potential and future customers as possible. What Customers Want. Your customers want to access to you at their will. Why It’s Important.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Working for a corporation I was just a cog in a massive wheel and never really had control of impacting actual customers. By making custom jewellery, we get to be part of some really special moments. In 2012 I sustained a spinal cord injury, and discovered the world of neurological physical rehabilitation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2012

You can now customize that by size as well as completely hide your chat area. With this sidebar comes a section for shortcuts that enable you to use a customized variety of notes, previous searches, tags and notebooks. It automatically updates for those customers who are where the business is located. More here. More here.

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Social Media Warrant Search Technical Review 69

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Allyson met her co-founder Meg Wirth in 2012 when Wirth was working as a consultant for groups like the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations. As an employee of Palo Alto Software, I remember reading about Maternova because in 2012, they won the “Business Boost” competition we were sponsoring, and a grand prize of $10,000.

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