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6 Reasons You Need PR For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Finally, companies love PR for its ability to increase search results, especially for people who don’t know they’re looking for you until they find you. So, it’s easy to see how someone might find your press release through searching for widgets and then follow the link back to your website. It’s affordable. .

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Do Your Own PR

Mike Michalowicz

Let’s get this straight right now: PR stands for Public Relations. Where marketing screams for the attention of people to buy your stuff, PR highlights the personality of your business and looks to connect with people. This is how you can do your own PR: Know Thy Journalist. Marketing is marketing. Pick Up The Phone.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

While traditional methods (PR, advertising, events, seminars) and online methods (SEO, SEM, social, referral marketing) are well understood by most companies there are many methods that are less well publicized. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak? So they’ll have to look for other competitive advantages for distribution.

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Measure Your Website Performance With Alexa Rating Application

YoungUpstarts

A website which has a good Google PR would also have a good Alexa Rating. Here are some steps and tips for improving your website’s Alexa Rating: The first step you must install the Alexa tool or widget for your website. After downloading the Alexa widget, you must install the Alexa toolbar for your browser too.

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How to Use Social Media To Drive Sales

ConversionXL

You can’t just go and blast your PR all over the place, no one will listen to you, and if no one listens then no one buys. Once people recognize that you don’t just blast your company’s PR all over the place, but share stuff they like (give good advice, relevant info etc) and find useful, they will follow and like your activities.

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StartupRoar.com – A Source Of Aggregated, Curated Entrepreneurial Content

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Cannabis Marketing Without Paid Ads: How to Do it Right

Up and Running

PR and media outreach. You can have your SMS contacts opt-in at your physical location or via “click-to-join” website forms, social media widgets, or browser pop-ups. Incorporating referral links into your communications and incentivizing folks to share them facilitates “viral lopping” and organic growth.

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