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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. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. Underbelly.

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Where Does Pinterest Fit in Your Marketing Mix?

ConversionXL

Google requires on-page SEO, technical SEO , outreach, link building , and a months- (or years-) long wait—just to discover if it works or not. The added benefit is that Pins are 100x more “viral” than tweets , so you continue to gain traffic months after someone pins your content. . A good pin can’t rescue a bad board.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. When I first started moving out of consulting in 2005, I acquired a product called DotNetInvoice , a straightforward piece of invoicing software that I promoted almost exclusively through SEO.

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The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. When I first started moving out of consulting in 2005, I acquired a product called DotNetInvoice , a straightforward piece of invoicing software that I promoted almost exclusively through SEO.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. When I first started moving out of consulting in 2005, I acquired a product called DotNetInvoice , a straightforward piece of invoicing software that I promoted almost exclusively through SEO.

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Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

To see this in action, consider the DALL-E images that go viral on Reddit and Twitter. When I graduated from college in 1990, jobs like “web designer,” “SEO strategist,” and “data scientist” didn’t exist. In fact, even licensing stock photos probably wouldn’t warrant the fees and effort.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I run / wrote a site that serves approx 500,000 page requests a day, 5-10 complex SQL queries a page, god knows how much SEO related intelligence, 100,000s of users, external network comms. Just not a good fit for you. March 26, 2011 at 6:03 pm. the list is long. I’ve been programming for 29 years, since I was 6.

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