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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand.

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Tips for Success via Business Crowdfunding

Hearpreneur

We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors. The bottom line is: if you’re an issuer don’t think you’re the expert – you may be an expert in the vertical of your business but not in performance-based marketing or investor acquisition.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Transcript of What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

What I mean by that is we have cases today where we have clients, large national brands that have local locations and they’re competing with non local results for their products and their services. I mean, they’re essentially national lead aggregators and they’re messing up the local results.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions. Conclusion.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Our personal data is being, bought, bartered and sold with every log in.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.