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7 Accelerated Growth Strategies For Disruptive Change

Startup Professionals Musings

To build a startup, entrepreneurs need a laser focus on providing an innovative solution to a real problem. Conventional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it probably won’t take your startup to the exponential growth of a large-scale movement. Incent friendly competition with prizes. People love to compete.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. Too many entrepreneurs still think plans are for investors, and investors are required to build a startup. Take advantage of social media and free websites for marketing.

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5 Keys Steps For Every Startup Roadmap To Revenue

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t start from how you want to sell. Start with a new understanding of the real customer need, their search process in finding you (referral, website, social media), and most desired payment model, like one-time payment versus subscription, or lease versus purchase. Include planned measurements and metrics.

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SEO for Startups

SoCal CTO

I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They are in a space where there is lots of search traffic, but they didn't have anything particularly interesting to say about how they were going to get ranked. I won't say that I'm truly an expert on SEO.

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How To Take Your Idea From A Startup To A Movement

Startup Professionals Musings

To build a startup, entrepreneurs need a laser focus on providing an innovative solution to a real problem. Conventional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it probably won’t take your startup to the exponential growth of a large-scale movement. Incent friendly competition with prizes. People love to compete.

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Interview with Lolita Carrico, Gloss Network

socalTECH

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier? Is this competitive with Modern Mom? What is Gloss Network?

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How to Get Your E-commerce Site Noticed In A Global Market

Tech Zulu Event

Further, as the competition amongst web stores continues to increase, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to grab one’s parts of their desired market. With regards to search engine optimization, positioning your website such that it allows the search engines to read your website effectively is vitally important.