Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

'6 Key Tactics Agencies Use to Help Local Businesses Rank Higher in Google written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing, and today’s guest post is from Dan Olson – Enjoy! photos credit: Business strategy with seo concept © Ximagination | Dreamstime.com. Small businesses today, more than ever, rely on agencies to help with organic search and local results to drive business in their local markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

'The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 23, 2015

'The chart above is from the ever useful Criteo State of Mobile Commerce report. It’s good to see UK shoppers turning to their phones to shop more than the rest of the western world because UK companies will innovate faster on mobile as a result. We already produce more than our fair share of ecommerce giants and so long as the UK shopper keeps adopting new technology faster than Europeans and Americans we will most likely keep doing so.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 23, 2015

'A new year’s the perfect time to step back and take a critical look at your business with a view to making positive changes. As you explore your options, one important area to explore is making the switch to running your business on the Cloud. So you’re not one of the early adopters. You’ve held out this long, and you’re wondering what changes you will be looking at should you convert your applications and data storage to web-based providers.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 23, 2015

'“The days are long but the years are short.” I was told this several times about becoming a parent but the same can be true about the life of a founder. Although the way we spend our days are different than the teams we’ve backed, Homebrew started in Jan 2013 with the goal of feeling like a startup, just one which writes checks instead of code.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

'The Power of Gratitude in Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing, and today’s guest post is from Nicole Kohler – Enjoy! photo credit: pixabay. As a business owner, you probably say the phrase “thank you” multiple times a day without thinking about it.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 23, 2015

'Outsourcing innovation project management might be the most strategic money you spend this year. It’s not a new idea but it’s one more companies should consider. It sure beats doing nothing. See my Seven Essentials for hiring below. But first: If you’ve not got an innovation plan in the process of being executed, right now, you are treading water and will eventually drown.

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