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What the Beatles Can Teach Us About Starting a Company

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Here are four lessons we can learn from the Beatles’ startup career. If they had done it for the money they would have stopped long before they became an overnight success five years of non-stop practice later. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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I Will Review Your Website for Free

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You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know). You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know). Any non-personal website will work. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? at 7:32 am [.]

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

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It’s completely un-targeted (unless your niche market is other startups) and you have no relationship with that audience. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. But we haven’t talked about how big of a role traffic quality plays in determining your conversion rate.

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Three Tips for Getting People to Read Your Email Newsletter

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Micropreneur Academy member Ruben Gamez launched Bidsketch five months after joining the Academy, and has experienced quite a bit of success with this niche application for designers. So I am presenting them here as tips for getting people to read your email newsletter.

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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

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Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. I’ve gone on and on about the subject of pre-launch marketing on my podcast , made mention of it in my book , went into detail on TechZing , and again on a recent Micropreneur Academy conference call. No one cares about your idea.

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Why “Luck” is a Terrible Marketing Plan for Your Startup.

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I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. I would think, “How can you find a market for something before you build it?&# You can sell garbage to a hungry market and make money. In these cases, the market doesn’t matter because luck trumps everything.

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My Podcast Launches Today: “Startups for the Rest of Us”

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Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. at 3:38 pm I like Cranky Geeks, Internet Business Mastery, Internet Marketing: Insider tips and advice for Online Marketing, Mixergy, North Atlantic Radio, The Pipeline, and Venture Voice. #3 My new podcast launches today.

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