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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

I started my Philadelphia area home appraising business in 2006. A website is not a passive form of advertising, like a billboard or business card. A website is an active driver of customers to you if it is created properly and appears when people search online for products or services like yours.

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The Top 5 Benefits Of Social Media On Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses typically have to pay special attention to advertising strategies in order to get their name and service out in a timely and efficient manner to potential clients. The use of social media pages will positively affect where you rank in search engine results; this helps a potential customer find your small business.

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What You Need to Know About Google Local Services Ads

Duct Tape Marketing

Local search is one of the last places left for Google to wring a little more ad spend out of small businesses. The local map listing today is pure gold for mobile searches for certain types of businesses and Google knows it so they are expanding their Local Service ads accordingly. Philadelphia, PA. Riverside, CA. San Jose, CA.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. We have a strong preference for candidates with experience working with advertising systems written in C or C++.

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How To Avoid the 3 Most Costly Mistakes When Using Google AdWords

Duct Tape Marketing

You are low on advertising budget and even lower on patience. AdWords is set by default to have your keywords in broad match, and this causes your keywords to match for a huge variety of searches you never intended. By default your ads shows for a huge variety of searches that you never intended.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. People consciously try to create names with unique keywords so theirs will be the only result in targeted Google searches. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Is It Sticky?

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