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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

10- Affiliate business. I’ll always place my bet on affiliate marketing. If you don’t want to lose out on the value of online real estate, you must explore affiliate marketing. For any business, affiliate marketing offers excellent opportunities to scale without large advertising budgets. Photo Credit: Emma Williams.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

VP of Business Development, DNAnexus - Palo Alto, California In the not too distant future, everything will be determined by your DNA--your job, what retro 50's decor you'll buy, how tightly you'll slick back your hair, whether or not you can date Uma Thurman.

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

ConversionXL

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. You start with two affiliates: Kim and Jim.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

It seems that everyone is running some type of online campaign nowadays. Here is our guide to running an effective and legal sweepstakes campaign online. First off, let’s define what a sweepstakes campaign is. Some of them good, some not so much. Sweepstakes are prize giveaways where the winners are chosen by luck.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. I’ll be curious to hear more about your experience with affiliate marketing. Great posts.

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1. Your campaign data. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. Just to ensure you are executing against your right mental model. You can’t track everything.

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