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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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This was the first in her string of web properties. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) How’s that for an ex painter?

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form. really understand it.

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

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Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - Plus, maybe they’ve got some mega Facebook deal in the works? sites still dominate.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many adds came through organic SEO? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many through SEM?

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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8 Ways Blogging Can Supercharge Your Business Website

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I have found that publishing a regular blog can give you an edge in making all this happen. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites. Your blog followers will be your best customers.