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I Haven’t Seen A Startup Yet Thrive Without Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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[Infographic] Is SEO Or SEM Better For Online Marketing?

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Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. SEM for Beginners.

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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

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Today, we’ll cover small business web design best practices and tips. Many things have changed – we’ll point you to great new resources and examples – but the fundamental best practices of good web design have remained consistent. Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2014: 1.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

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Viral Marketing And Word-of-Mouth Require Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

crowdSPRING Blog

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

and tips for buyers looking for logo design. Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Keep the site design simple, fresh, and unique.