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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

False experts include legions of self-appointed “gurus” and “visionaries” who saturate social media with bad advice. Consumers don’t know a good agency from a bad one, so social media presence or a major speaking gig becomes an easy proxy. But they’re not the only sources. Conclusion.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

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It’s a bit anti-climactic, seeing as we’ve been hearing about the financial crisis from every major media source for months. But stock indexes continue to slide and the unemployment numbers are getting worse. 9 Recession Proof Your Programming Skills - Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal on 04.16.09 at 11:31 am [.]

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What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO?

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Social media: With each passing year, the search engines give more clout to a business’s presence on social media. Enterprises can afford to hire in-house designers and coders to take care of this for them. Mobile friendliness: Websites can no longer consider mobile friendliness optional. It needs to be responsive.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

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In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. Social media drives communication…to drive sales. 5 Social Media Growth Hacks for Small Businesses by Forbes. You can do this via a strategic sequence of emails, social media engagement or even remarketing online. via TechCrunch).

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? What is the secret? It’s that simple.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.