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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

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Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event.

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Appearances on popular podcasts and thought leadership on social media can establish your brand as an industry expert.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

Facebook is, by far, the most promising social advertising platform for E-Commerce purposes — the site has 1.86B users , an average ROI on targeted ads of 152% , and is responsible for 85% of all social media e-commerce. Customer segmentation is an old trick in the marketing book. It’s widely used for a reason.

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