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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

So if you search Marketing Agencies Kansas City, MO you get one set of listing and if you add something like “digital work&# to the search the list changes based on words in the reviews. Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews.

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Joining The Board of Startup Weekend

Feld Thoughts

I spent the day in Kansas City yesterday at the Kauffman Foundation for my first Startup Weekend board meeting. I was at the first Startup Weekend in Boulder in July 2007. I saw that in Boulder in July 2007 and I see that when I hear of other people that have participated in Startup Weekends around the world.

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Odis Jones Explains How to Strengthen Your Rural Community’s Economy

The Startup Magazine

million dollars in 2007, all of it owing to the nonprofit arts and culture organizations that are present. A city that supports its cultural institutions financially and through marketing efforts, it enables itself to initiate activity and draw in tourists. The Greater Paducah region generated $39.9

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Is Your Business a Pork Belly :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Normal is a Commodity Better is Only Better if it’s Different Posted by : John Jantsch on Apr 22, 2011 | 8:22 am Categories : Duct Tape Marketing , Marketing Strategy Tag : Kansas City Board of Trade Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like. Pork Bellies are one of my favorites commodities, mostly because I like the name so much.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. A week later we had an awesome dinner at Oak and then Mike, Cindy, and I stayed up until after midnight at the St.

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a speaker, MC and a television announcer with 25 years or so under his belt, the last 12 with the Kansas City Royals. John Jantsch: I have to tell you, first off, a lot of my listeners know that I’m in Kansas City and that I’m a Kansas City Royals fan that I got a solid single off of Monte at fantasy camp.