Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

5 Ways to Improve Local Search Results for Business This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Things like addresses, city names, suburb names, neighborhood names, zip codes, area codes, maps and directions are all markers that say your business is local. Be a Community Resource.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

10 Shocking Twitter Pictures From the Colorado Springs Wildfire. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Take a look at a snapshot from my company’s analytics.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. First Name. From time to time, we will send you e-mail announcements on new features and special offers from The Wall Street Journal Online. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Forgot your username or password?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. What follows is the best advice and tips from these interviews.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Badges and Buttons We’ve moved away from the once-ubiquitious BETA! Some appear to glow as if lit from within, which is a compelling and trendy effect in itself. Some appear to glow as if lit from within, which is a compelling and trendy effect in itself. The square logos have rounded corners. See also: Wet floor effect.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Badges and Buttons We’ve moved away from the once-ubiquitious BETA! Some appear to glow as if lit from within, which is a compelling and trendy effect in itself. Some appear to glow as if lit from within, which is a compelling and trendy effect in itself. The square logos have rounded corners. See also: Wet floor effect.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). How to Register Your New Business Name. Close Just Like You Opened.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Ning Communities.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Second, the debt note requires a fixed due date (or “maturity date”) for repayment of the total amount borrowed, plus interest.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. steps, counting from the shopping cart to the step where the order is actually placed — often a “review and confirm order” step.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Many successful entrepreneurs learned how to run a business as they built one, and they had the educational benefit of being able to make mistakes and learn from them as they went along. Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). Anyone can easily run a search for his or her brand name and see how actively it’s being discussed in social media.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

And often, businesses suffer from a “set it and forget” mentality, in which a product manager will slap a Facebook Like button on his sites and declare the business’s website now social. Be it A/B or multivariate testing, here are my thoughts on why testing is so important, and how to get the most from your site’s social technology.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. We need people who can not only cook burgers, but cook anything , from scratch.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

cannabis market projected to skyrocket from $600 million to $22 billion by 2022 , there is no better time than now to master your cannabis marketing strategy. Within your image alt texts and file names, as appropriate. Do some volunteer work or community service. With the U.S. But that can be easier said than done.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Here are the companies who called in: Ryan Montgomery from Chext. Mark Smith from DigMyData.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? So it all begs the question, if you’re not from a tech background do you even have a shot at starting a web startup? Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem?

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

No amount of “best viewed with…” badges will stop people from reading and remixing what we write, paint, compose or otherwise create. Designers who practiced table-based layout may remember how headaches up front lead to more flexible code later. - select -. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques. Web Design. Typography.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

These guidelines have been crafted from usability testing, field testing, website tracking, eye tracking, Web analytics and actual complaints made to customer support personnel by disgruntled users. The user will feel at ease knowing that the form comes from a sincere organization. Base the name of the form on its purpose.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. But I don’t buy it. Market Hard.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Traindom Traindom Customer Login Sign Up Affiliates Support Information Marketing Conversations 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage October 4th, 2010 § 45 Photo used under Creative Commons from theparadigmshifter So you have a new startup company and want some coverage. Startup Booster 28. Robin Speziale 30.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, found here on ConversionXL & from other great websites around the web. We’ve organized everything to best simulate a visitor’s experience on a landing page from first click to final conversion. Complete Guide to A/B Testing.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For example, here is how a few of my favorite startups describe themselves: “ Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone.” ” “ Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone.”

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The product or website (be it software, e-commerce, or a service) might be awesome , but if it puts itself in front of the wrong market, or packages itself so the right market can’t figure out why it’s awesome, the startup will fail. Facts about your customers don’t come from your friends and families.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. Youll stop and communicate at each, making sure youre happy before continuing. Be succinct.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. But there are two downfalls of selling physical products compared to software: 1.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Breaking from convention is scary. Challenge them to define at exactly which screen size the interface should turn on its head and snatch the content from users’ reach. How do you keep them moving forward, and stop them from turning back halfway? Purge as many ideas as you can from the minds of the participants.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I built a multi-million dollar company (and sold it) from New Brunswick Canada. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. Thanks, Phil Up North.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We’ve consulted and implemented projects for companies from Fortune 100 firms to small (successful) startups. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer.

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