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8 Challenges For Startups With A Neighborhood Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Watch out for local sales force requirements. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on Industries That Need Technology Innovation The Most

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Thanks to Tom McSherry, Sections for Sale ! #12- 17- The advertising industry Photo Credit: Claire Jarrett I believe the advertising industry is ripe for innovation, particularly in the realm of data privacy and ad targeting. Thanks to Michael Springer, Green Opportunity Finder ! #24- Thanks to Donnie Rand, AAOO ! #17-

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Future Trends They See in Their Industry

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8- More home buyers, low mortgage rates, data management, virtual reality and automated advertising. Real estate professionals are well-versed in determining which properties are suitable for sale or rent. 10- Use of telephone sales and sales automation. Life insurance has always been largely a face-to-face type of sale.

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Visual SEO Solutions In A Modern Market

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Advertisements often follows trends. The long-form commercials which can still be found on old television show compilations from the forties and fifties simply wouldn’t work today; but they do provide excellent windows into the past, and by extension, what is and is not effective advertisement. Trends are always shifting.

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Hyperlocal Has Great Potential And Real Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Watch out for local sales force requirements. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Especially in local communities, people want to know where the sales are, and who is hanging out where.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Especially in local communities, people want to know where the sales are, and who is hanging out where.

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