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How to Start a Small Web Design Firm

Up and Running

Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to start a small web design firm, you’ll need to develop a host of skills to help you run a successful business, including time management, sales and promotional strategies, and client acquisition. Create a Lean Business Plan. The first step to running your own business is creating a solid plan.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

There must be a healthy acquisition or IPO pipeline in the market. Certainly if Zoecity was mature enough within an imminent exit (IPO or acquisition) this might have worked greater. Author: colinwong Colin Wong is the CEO of Zoecity, a social media company. How do you emulate this culture outside of Silicon Valley?

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EMaaS: How Email Marketing Can Be Your Agency’s Most Profitable Service

Duct Tape Marketing

My own experience sending a newsletter has been eye-opening, and while social media garners most of the mainstream headlines these days, email remains as powerful as ever, and it’s well-positioned to be an effective offering into the foreseeable future. The management interface provided by most ESPs is more than adequate.

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Excellent Showing at 59 Days of Code Startup Competition

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. I was a judge at last night’s 59 days of code startup competition here in Fresno. Teams had 59 days to create a killer app. See you in 2011.

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. He spoke about risk (development, market, financial and execution), social media, how you must create content (most likely through a blog) to win in today’s “search&# economy. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Build a better user of [X].&#

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

Not only will it give you insights into visitor behavior based on area, but you can apply these segments to your Matched Search Query report under the Acquisition section of Google Analytics to see how searches differ from area to area and pull the highest converting queries to include as keywords within a region-targeted Campaign.

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Don't Plan to Get Rich from Your Startup

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It’s not as sexy as conquering the world with the next brilliant consumer-focused social media network microblog app, but your chance of a modest outcome is 10x…perhaps 100x greater. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Start your startup.