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Five Ways to Prepare for the 2014 E-Commerce Season

YoungUpstarts

by Nikole Haiar, Director, Marketing Campaigns & Programs at Hostway Services, Inc. The e-commerce shopping season kicks off in earnest on Cyber Monday, which will fall on December 1 in 2014. The peak selling season can be a stressful time for online merchants who are scrambling to get products to customers as quickly as possible.

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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2014: 1. Other 2014 design trends include blurred backgrounds, simple animations, more scrolling, and bigger fonts. For even more about 2014 design trends, I recommend you read 18 pivotal web design trends for 2014. Your website reflects your brand.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

ConversionXL

2014 is almost here. Here are my 10 rules for #winning in 2014. This is nothing compared to 2014 and beyond. Please stop being stupid in 2014. So no wonder 59% of businesses have figured out that they should fix their conversion machine before pumping any more dollars into their PPC or SEO campaigns. Barack Obama.

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10 Things All Founders Should Do in the Last Months of 2014

Up and Running

What has your business accomplished in 2014, and what is still left to do? If you’re a B2B company, take advantage of leftover funds from over-budgeted campaigns and projects. Budget planning and allocating funds for 2015 should be a priority toward the end of 2014. The new year is fast approaching. Crunching Numbers.

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Predictive Analytics is a Goldmine for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Political campaigning with voter persuasion modeling. I’m sure every campaign would love to know which voters will be positively persuaded by specific contacts, such as a phone call, door knock, flier, or TV ad. Movie recommendations.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Not building marketing & sales integration processing and thus wasting millions in poor lead quality and misguided sales campaigns. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale.

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Twitter Link Roundup #208 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Four Important Small Business Insights: Marketing in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1d0lOBF. Empower Your Small Business: 2014 marketing insights, biz plans, resolutions, content marketing – crowdspring.co/1fyj2Z1. Four Important Small Business Insights: Marketing in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1d0lOBF. ” crowdspring.co/L76cU1.