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Wonderist Agency Acquires Merger Labs

YoungUpstarts

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Limited brand equity. Pay Per Click (PPC) Ads. That’s why it’s valuable for new businesses to complement those tactics with pay-per-click (PPC) ads. As the name suggests, PPC ads function like traditional digital ads, but you’ll only be responsible for paying for the people who actually click the ad.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Mark Walsen Mark Walsen Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I think you would be better off hiring people, rather than trying to convince them to work for free in exchange for equity.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies

Duct Tape Marketing

They may just do PPC or just do SEO or just do creative, but they're all over the, the country. Agencies can service clients all over the world. We may see them niche down based on the type of industry that they're in, you know, that they specialize in. To do the fulfillment. And, and so have yes.

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Conversocial: A case study in thought leadership based marketing

The Equity Kicker

The core message to their customers is that consumers are using Facebook and Twitter to make customer service requests and that failing to respond and manage them properly can rapidly lead to dissatisfaction and loss of brand equity. They keep things interesting by continually focusing on different aspects of social customer service.

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Why Your Customers Buy More When Value Outweighs Cost

ConversionXL

Even though the Boston Globe is one of the world’s most-respected newspapers with 22 Pulitzer prizes, they have impressive brand equity and awareness and they’re nearly 150 years old, in 2007 profits were trending downward while hundreds of newspapers nationwide were shuttering their doors. Conclusion.

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Marketing Beyond Acquisition

Gust

There’s only one catch though: it takes a complete marketer to make that kind of contribution, and the skill set of a complete marketer goes way beyond, let’s say, managing a PPC campaign. Surprisingly so, some large corporations seem to have nailed this type of cross-pollination better than some startups. It’s almost counter-intuitive.