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The Strategy Behind Building A Thriving Online Community For Your Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

So one to many is a big and a critical factor around social media communities. To first say something to kick off a conversation, right. In these closed communities, one can be starting off a conversation at any time. These types of communities is very different than social media technology.

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Online Business Networking Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

It's as if we were getting together to have this conversation at a dinner, but instead we do it online. Cliff also sparked an idea that along with using in a separate conversations sparked the idea that we should be using Southern California Tech Central as a means of helping to aggregate the conversation.

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Transcript of Why Reviews Matter to Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Aaron Weiche: We definitely see a very strong signal from the biggest window into the web through Google, that reputation really matters, and they are bringing it to the conversation right in that search result, very high, and very visible for a user to interact with. Aaron Weiche: Service all day long to me, is really the big one.

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Local Marketing Strategies For Your Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

2:07] Let’s talk about the local versus national differences in marketing — are there any significant differences let’s say for a plumber versus say a software company when it comes to digital marketing? [3:57] Um, a plumber primarily is trying to attract homeowners, you know, to his or her business right. Yeah, exactly.

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How To Improve Your Local Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

2:07] Let’s talk about the local versus national differences in marketing — are there any significant differences let’s say for a plumber versus say a software company when it comes to digital marketing? [3:57] Um, a plumber primarily is trying to attract homeowners, you know, to his or her business, right.

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Talking AI with AI

Reid Hoffman

Recently, we have started to see how quickly this will change different kinds of productivity software, such as the customer service platform Cresta , the productivity platform Coda , or the storytelling tool Tome. Second, just like media covers plane crashes and fires, it seems like the negative is immediate and large.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? I actually sold lots of software to Intuit at Smart Bear. ’ Why?

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