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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St. What makes these ventures interesting to me is how focused they are on their particular audiences of either potential users or customers. Both events drew small and large investors from all over the country.

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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2019

Duct Tape Marketing

She is an expert in creating the kind of content that grabs your audiences’ attention and can help you grow your business through the four distinct phases of growth. Digital marketing provides business owners with dozens of channels through which to reach their audience. Matt Scanlon is a fellow Kansas City business owner.

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The Future of Small Business SEO (Hint: It’s About Content)

Duct Tape Marketing

In fact, they just recently condemned content stitching and warned against misusing guest blog posts. In other words, you should only publish unique blog content that is interesting or useful to your audience. If you try to blog only for the sake of the search engines, chances are you will fail to get any SEO value.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We started Prestige Transportation, LLC a Kansas City based Black Car Limousine Service because I was working part-time for another Limousine Company and my girlfriend was convinced we could do it better. What we initially achieved was a small audience between 200-800 for our podcast. 16- Treat employees in a better way.

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Transcript of How to Start Your Speaking Business

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: Want to quickly send amazing looking emails to your prospects and customers in just minutes? I speak to one specific audience and I solve the one specific problem,” versus trying to be all things for all people. I serve this audience in this way. ” Like, “The audience doesn’t care.

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Must-Have Website Elements for Professional Services

Duct Tape Marketing

Build trust – I write more about this below as well, but your website needs to work the way your customers need it to and expect it to. You need to instill confidence in your audience. Educate and inform – Help your audience understand what their problems and challenges actually are and how to solve them.

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10 Reasons Podcast Guesting is the #1 Killer Content Marketing Tactic of All Time

Duct Tape Marketing

In order to succeed, we as marketers and business owners must build our own audiences, strive for niche authority and become influencers. Pound-for-pound, I have never seen a tactic that has produced so many wins, with so little effort: Unbelievable access to a highly engaged audience. So Much Value in So Little Time.