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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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Mastering Growth Momentum: Unveiling Your Agency’s True North

Duct Tape Marketing

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. Frank (09:27): I was going to say, I think when businesses don't, I'm going to bring back something I mentioned at the top of the conversation, and we'll get into it too. And when you don't have a true north, it affects everything.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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How To Connect, Converse, And Convert Through Social Media Listening

Duct Tape Marketing

How To Connect, Converse, And Convert Through Social Media Listening written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She teaches a Digital Marketing course (virtually) at the University of California in Irvine. 7:44] How do you engrain this idea of conversations not campaigns into your social media team members? [9:46]

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

Occam's Razor

We will cover measuring success of SEO efforts on one web page, how to do search engine optimization for b2b websites, how to rank for highly saturated industries / categories / keywords, and which competitive intelligence tools do I use for search program optimization (and targeting display ads using search data!). Back to our story.