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Why You Should Give Before You Get

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. Later on he would offer to share his advice on SEO with other portfolio companies.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

PR and Prose. Thanks to Lauren Gilmore, PR and Prose ! #9- Company names are uber important for two main reasons: determines how easy prospects will remember your brand name AND improves the SEO of your site if you use keywords that relate to that industry. 9- Considering alphabets and K sound. Photo Credit: Lisa Pinnell.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads). Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. My PR journey started with an amazing position with the renowned Jason Dady restaurant group in San Antonio, Texas. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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Transcript of How to Get Found Using Local SEO Tactics

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Get Found Using Local SEO Tactics written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Really the undisputed king of local SEO. John: Yeah will you just — I believe gave a huge boost to the idea of local PR then didn’t you? Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Transcript.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When we were deciding what to call our new PR agency we started by writing down a bunch of words that describe what we do, that we felt passionate about. While we were working on the logo it dawned on us that PR was actually uPRoar’s middle name. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15 12 – A Friend Helped.

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Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap

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We hit 15M uniques 18 months ago with our content+search product, but it was largely based on "good content" combined with "excellent SEO." The Google Panda update didnt help us, but we could have kept reworking around SEO -- just didnt personally feel worth it, to be honest. It wasnt fully satisfying to me.