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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

And the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, which should go into full effect by the end of 2013, will make it even more of a game-changer by opening the door for businesses to market ownership stakes in their ventures to people over the internet. Despite this, crowdfunding has a pretty big gap to fill.

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How to Get More Customers for Free This Week Through Google

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Get More Customers for Free This Week Through Google written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. You see neighboring businesses, competitors, and everyone else get customers through their door, and you’re getting nothing. Getting even MORE customers. You have a website!

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the So Why Does This Matter? the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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Transcript of Growing Your Business While Growing as an Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

It was in a part of Portland that was up and coming and I always loved serving small businesses. John Jantsch: Fast forward to today, I mean, 500 employees, thousands and thousands of customers, all kinds of accolades but it’s interesting because when you started this even in 2003 … I’ve been in business longer than that.

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Money-Making Subscription Services (That You Can Start Too!)

Up and Running

Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of having to fight, hunt, and practically beg for each new sale, you could set up a business in such a way that all your customers paid you regularly, time and time again? What could you bundle together for your customers on a monthly basis, and charge them a flat fee for? Graze Box has you covered.

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10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

Up and Running

Between our long life expectancies , medical breakthroughs , and the everyday miracles of things like the internet, digital photography, and air travel, we are living lives that would have seemed like a dream to people growing up just a few generations ago. Last year, this shopping event certainly showed small business the love; 5.7