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

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Weddings are a bit like college degrees – they often set you back financially for many years after the event. 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. How’s that for an ex painter?

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

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SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place.

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Interview with Alec Shankman, Gotcast

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Alec Shankman: What eventually happened, is our events became so viral, that people ended up creating profiles to get their family and friends to vote for them, ala Youtube to get these jobs. Instead of people just getting online, it became online contests for certain events. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. In other words, instead of accepting that “SEO is good,” let's explore what the point of SEO is and when it is actually “good” (that is, promoting a goal). and online business networking ?

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A great opportunity for more visible networking. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I might also be found working on a presentation for an event or speaking engagement.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. A funding announcement is a stand-alone event.

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The Value Achieved Business Networking at Conferences

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Yet “another networking event”. So here’s how to get the most value out of networking events. Before attending any event make a list of the top 3 goals you want to achieve by the end of the event. Go into a seminar, event, meet up or conference interested in what others have to share.