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Build Success from a Struggling Agency with a Multimillion-Dollar Pivot

Duct Tape Marketing

Chris Martinez is the CEO and founder of DUDEAgency.io, a business he grew from scratch into a multimillion-dollar success, earning accolades such as the Stevie Award for Minority-Owned Business of the Year and a Silver Medal for Most Innovative Company Under 100 Employees. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

When I started, I knew enough about internet marketing, SEO, and maintaining a website to get the company off the ground. I tried to learn more about SEO and running a WordPress site while covering other important roles. If not, it’s time to get good at finding employees and hire an expert. Do you have the time to do them well?

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. Pragmatic.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. We were not forced to lay anyone off and actually added employees during the pandemic. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007. The end of every year is the opportunity reflect on a 365-day journey.

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

maplebutter.com

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. 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?

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

How can you ever get rich by being an employee (unless you’re a CEO on the Wall Street)? I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. This was in 2007. The rent was due. That was the last drop. So now what?

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. After doing some due diligence, we decided to go with Honest Agency and we haven’t looked back since. In 2007 our agency started to service the Medicare market.

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