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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

Both Sides of the Table

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. What are Performance Based Warrants? What is a “performance based&# warrant? Should You Offer Them?

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. That channel giveth and then taketh away so you had millions of users who had not grown accustomed to the feature set of Viddy and thus didn’t stick around.

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16 PR Strategies Every Small Business Should Stop Using Right Now

Up and Running

PR can do wonders for your startup or small business, but not all strategies have proven to be effective. Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. Over-the-Top Self-Promotion. Press Release Avalanches.

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

For those moments when you have smaller tasks that don’t warrant a new hire but that you just can’t add to your already full plate, Simon Slade of Affilorama.com suggests microcontracting. DIY Marketing and PR. Check in with your team, make sure they’re happy and their needs are met. Microcontract. Think Guerrilla.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

Breonna Taylor : Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police, executing a search warrant, used a battering ram to crash into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency room technician. Later in the day, I received a call from another friend, a Black woman who works in PR at Netflix.

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If I Gave You a $100,000 Marketing Budget, What Would You Do With It?

Up and Running

Typically, we just don’t have enough money to warrant having a formal marketing budget. Promotional Channels. Let’s face it: developing a marketing budget for a small business is usually not a very big priority. Sometimes we just ignore doing one because it’s depressing. Marketing Strategy. Campaign Development.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. .” While pitching individual writers sounds more promising to many PR folk, you should always determine the official pitching method for your preferred publication.

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