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Navigating the Tricky World of ‘Experts’ – Start Up Advice from Founder of MyArtBroker  

The Startup Magazine

But that will dilute your focus, time and energy and mean you have less time you to drive the business forward and expand. You must trust in the experience and skill set of the people you hire, but at the same time, you know your business requirements better than anyone else. It’s also your money and you want it done properly.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Find and focus on one reliable distribution mechanism before diluting your time diversifying. It’s boring and doesn’t make you famous and doesn’t play into the false but common narrative that SEO and viral content will launch your startup into the market with almost no money. Your values are defined by what you tolerate. Fix that now.

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Seven Questions To Help You Attract Your Ideal Clients

YoungUpstarts

Your identity and your marketing messages get so diluted that they don’t resonate with anyone. In doing so, you hugely improve the chances of getting your pay-per-click ads in front of the right people and improve the SEO for your website and blog. What do they need to believe you can do? Let’s go back to the financial advisor example.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup?

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Want An Award-Winning Website? Check Out These Top Tips!

YoungUpstarts

Don’t dilute your content. Many website owners make the mistake of diluting their content. In fact, it’s a recommended practice for SEO purposes! Many people prefer to hire copywriters to take care of their blog and page content. Many people prefer to hire copywriters to take care of their blog and page content.

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7 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your PPC Guy: An Easy-To-Use Checklist

Duct Tape Marketing

If not, you’ll want to hire someone to do this for you. Before hiring any PPC expert, ask, “Are you going to upload the campaigns you create to my account?” “Yes” This will dilute your ROI and hurt results. Change is constant in SEO and Adwords. The bottom line: If you want an SEO guy, hire an SEO guy.

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Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

Look, if you're tired of slowing down your teams with clunky software processes and marketing that is difficult to scale, HubSpot is here to help you and your business grow better with collaboration tools and built in SEO optimizations. What's the job we're being hired to do. Anyway, they get to do it.