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7 Reasons Why You Need Pinterest For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Pinterest is a social bookmarking site that allows users to create their very own mood board for any event or line of interest. Users “pin” or post images on a photo gallery called “pinboards”‘ This platform, which is available both as a website and a mobile app, is heaven-sent for marketers.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. through the Yahoo! You can reach Mr. Kalghatgi at nikhil@softbank.com and @nikhilkal.

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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

Mobile powers local. Last year, I predicted that mobile would finally land for small business. We’ve talked about mobile as a marketing channel for years, but it seemed it wasn’t happening. Finally, mobile has become an important medium. Apps inside social networks provide answers.

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Why My Search Engine Use Is Dwindling and Why Yours Will Too

Duct Tape Marketing

This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces. Apps inside social networks are providing answers. Apps inside social bookmark sites are providing interesting reading.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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How to Curate Sitelinks to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

For mobile searches, those sitelinks may be expandable, allowing users to browse multiple levels of your site, all before clicking a link. Key phrases extracted from social bookmarking tags. The ongoing rise of mobile search has made sitelinks and their labels increasingly important. For most sites, a brand query (e.g.

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[Infographic] Is SEO Or SEM Better For Online Marketing?

YoungUpstarts

In the third quarter of 2017, 91 percent of all mobile searches were performed via the Google search engine. ( Social sharing, high-quality backlinks and social bookmarking make up the backbone of a riveting off-site SEO campaign. Mobile Search Marketing. SEM for Beginners. Now, they are a necessity for all brands.

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