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5 Ways Writing a Book Will Kick-Start Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, most good business people I know agree, but don’t know where to start. I had the same problem before my first book, but I find that all the information you need these days is easily found on the Internet, or in a good book on the subject, like the new one I just finished, “ How to Self-Publish Your Book ,” by Dr. Jan Yager.

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Why Do VC’s Invest in Companies with No Business Model?

Rob Go

How is that possible given that the company isn’t making any money and doesn’t have any business model?” Why would you put money into services like Instagram, Tumblr, or others before any real business model is in place? The answer is that investors do generally care about business models.

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IoT Startup Hologram Hires Mike Georgoff as Chief Product Officer

Austin Startup

Georgoff’s has extensive experience and expertise with developing and launching software as a service (SaaS) products and scaling a variety of business models. revenue, device usage, lead generation and team members. We’re thrilled to welcome Mike to our team. Hologram recently announced it has grown in four main areas?—?revenue,

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Location-Based Services are a Bonanza for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Internet marketers see it as a better way to target consumers, and even retarget them to close a sale. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly than this to tracking, navigation solutions, safety, security, local business search, and payments. Lead generation. See who is checking into your business.

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Maximizing Your Marketing Impact With Fractional CMOs

Duct Tape Marketing

Additionally, it’s important to consider the power of strategic marketing alliances throught this model and how this can have the potential to bring fresh ideas from other industries into a business to drive growth and success. I mean, if, is there a way to scale a business model like that? Let me lay it out.

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Small Business Marketing Guide: Types of Traditional and Online Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

Online marketing relies on strategies that leverage the Internet and mobile devices. In many cases, the goal of online marketing (especially for small businesses), is to directly increase sales by targeting potential customers using different online channels. Online Marketing. Direct sales.

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The evolution of the online marketplace: six big changes since Ebay

Version One Ventures

It has been twenty years since Ebay arrived on the scene and showed what happens when you bring people together over the Internet to do commerce. The first service marketplaces were primarily lead generators. But the new generation of service platforms is trying to be as transactional as possible.