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How To Be More Persuasive On Your Website

YoungUpstarts

Whether people need to pick a new movie to watch, shop at a store or find books to buy, they prefer to make choices that people around them have already approved of. Placing the logos of important business clients next to a sign-up page is a good way to encourage website visitors to go ahead with confidence, too.

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How Does Your Brand Look To The Public?

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But their product, service or book is just not selling from the site. They’ve spent months, even years, developing their business or products, writing their book or becoming an expert in their field. If you don’t know or understand your needs and goals for your website, you can’t explain them to your web developer.

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How To Close The Books on Your Startup

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Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. How To Close The Books on Your Startup. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers.

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Turn Your Web Design Talent Into Freelance Success

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Network effects are a standard of economics that suggest a business becomes more valuable as it is used, and that same principle applies to the popularity of your web design services. To book new projects, you need to find new clients, or have them find you, which makes networking incredibly important.

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7 Creative Ways to Engage With Your Customers Online

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Forums will likely still be around for the foreseeable future, but many companies are now finding it more advantageous to connect with customers on various social networks. Planning to release an e-book, redesign your website, or launch a new product? Host a Webinar or Google Hangout. Solve a Problem Together.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.