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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

Up and Running

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Google Webmasters has a fantastic channel, chock-full of helpful guides based on the expertise of the team that makes Google work.

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Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

During the holidays, the Web becomes an even more significant part of our lives, connecting us to our relatives and friends around the world. There are probably 10 events equivalent or larger than Le Web throughout the year, as well as smaller events every day. The market is larger, less fragmented, the consumers are earlier adopters.

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1TeamWeb Taps Out the Competition

Austin Startup

This explosive growth has in no small part been due to the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (or UFC) league, brought to the forefront in the past decade through the entertaining, if testosterone-heavy, Ultimate Fighter reality program on the Spike cable TV channel.

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7 Practical and Powerful Tips To Accelerate Online Networking

Duct Tape Marketing

Consider developing a web page. Enable social sharing on all posts and post not only on your blog but also on your social media channels. So blogging is a bit like sweat equity: you need to make sure you can glean a return in ways that are not directly deposited in your bank account. Set a networking goal (i.e.

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

What’s the best path for that kind of maker to circumvent the traditional distribution channels? The traditional channels, by the way, are still powerful. But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel. |. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people. Sadly execution and analysis of these new social media channels has been hobbled by old world thinking. My new book Web Analytics 2.0 Twitter is not that.