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How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

In this piece, we look at how you can start growing your SEO business, from business plans to lead generation. What is an SEO business? As the name suggests, an SEO business is a company or agency that performs SEO services for and on behalf of a brand. How to write an SEO business plan that outlines your goals.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. It allows you to systematically replace each business-critical hypothesis with facts. The next Vertical Markets post will put all the pieces together.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking? The underlying strategies are not new.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals. I too have my business plan mapped out with goals of transactions, dollars and cents. 11- Two goals.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development. Business Model versus Business Plan Customer Development' Your country/industry needs a “go global” playbook.

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How to Write the Competition Section of Your Business Plan

Up and Running

What kinds of businesses are likely to jump in on it if you create a new market and become successful? In the early days of business plan software, when I first developed and sold templates to do business plan financials in the middle 1980s, I was the first to do that. Know your business needs.