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3 Essential Ways To Build Online Customer Trust In 2018

YoungUpstarts

by KJ Dearie, product specialist and small business advisor at Termly. As the regulations that govern the internet evolve and threaten the safety of online users’ personal information, more and more individuals are engaging the digital world with increasing suspicion and hesitance. But this isn’t new information, right?

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How To Start An Etsy Shop

Up and Running

You can read more about Etsy products and policies on their very informative blog. Research your product. In addition to researching the Etsy platform, research your product. Think SEO and social media strategy. And one of these first considerations should be: where am I most likely to meet my customers?

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What To Do When Your Trusted Employees Defect To The Competition

YoungUpstarts

In the hands of the competition, information about your products, processes, strategies, and client base can dull your competitive edge and hurt profitability at a time when every penny counts. Make it abundantly clear to new recruits that their previous employers’ private information must stay private.

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5 e-Commerce Tips To Attract Back-to-School Shoppers

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to landing prime real estate in product search results, you might think it’s all about keywords. In reality, these are less important to search engines than a unique, well-written product description, according to our in-house search engine optimization team. Avoid using stock images provided by the manufacturer.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself. But I have decided to make an exception today, for two reasons.

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The 10x Angel. The 0x Angel.

Hunter Walker

One reason Satya and I thought we had Product Market Fit for starting Homebrew was behavior we saw as angel investors. If you just need the money, stick unknown angels in an AngelList Syndicate so they have more limited information rights. You can reference check angels just like you would VCs or employees.

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Transcript of Why Reviews Matter to Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Aaron Weiche: Yeah, two really big high level signals that I look at and put a lot of trust in is one, just what you see when you do a search at Google itself, and that I test is, whether I’m looking for a product, or a hotel, or a service, who’s going to take care of my lawn.