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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, today everybody's online, but are they finding your website, Grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with Semrush from content and SEO to ads and social media. But like conversion did not work. Or was it just like you'd bump into somebody and you'd strike up a conversation? John Jantsch (17:30): Yeah.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

At the time, I wanted to focus more on targeting new clients with branding projects and PR covers a lot of areas including social media, so the name was created purely for SEO purposes: Brand Branding PR LLC. Am I happy to start conversations with, Hi. Thanks to Toni JV, JVT Media ! #24- Thanks to Tim Sims, Kansas-Sleep ! #25-

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

Duct Tape Marketing

We are on the front line of small biz SEO – we have dozens of SEO clients and have seen first-hand how client companies with both active blogs and social media networks handily outperformed their competitors in 2013. If you can believe it, we didn’t have a blog or any type of social media account until last year. How do we know?

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a speaker, MC and a television announcer with 25 years or so under his belt, the last 12 with the Kansas City Royals. John Jantsch: I have to tell you, first off, a lot of my listeners know that I’m in Kansas City and that I’m a Kansas City Royals fan that I got a solid single off of Monte at fantasy camp.

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5 Ways Writing A Book Will Supercharge Your Online Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

Social Media Exposure. With careful and strategic coordination, you can dramatically amplify your social media exposure by leveraging your own network, as well as those that have supported your book. Conversion Optimization. Book launches, by their very nature, create buzz. Trust me, if I can write a book, you can too.

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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Our focus revolves around the LinkedIn lead generation by optimizing their profiles, scaling their approach and sourcing employees, therefore creating lead opportunities through a social media platform, such as LinkedIn. Another example is the City Table Leadership website that is created for the city of Kansas.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

How about in the last 12 months deals announced with Dwolla (Iowa) and Pollenware (Kansas City). I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Angry Birds? From startup Rovio in Finland.

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