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15 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Anthony Mancuso, Electricians of Sacramento. #2 My responsibilities varied greatly, but there was one consistently annoying experience: Our marketing/advertising agency charged a boatload of money, took a shockingly long time and delivered often bland, ineffective results. 2 – Getting Things Done.

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What You Need to Know About Google Local Services Ads

Duct Tape Marketing

Sacramento, CA. With Local Services, you have the ability to advertise your business on Google and receive leads directly from potential customers. Google recently expanded their Local Services ads (formerly known as Home Services ads) to include 17 cities, with plans to expand to 30 cities by the end of 2017. Los Angeles, CA.

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The Secret Sauce For Smarter Marketing Execution

Duct Tape Marketing

Not just jumping into the tried and true, let's go do social media, let's go do Facebook ads, let's go do you know, video advertising or whatever. What happens then is everybody jumps outta their chair and goes and does what they know how to do, what is missing. (05:49): And then we benchmark those alternatives using a set of data.

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Principles For Low-Budget Marketing Strategies Every Startup Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Even placing a lemonade stand under the inclement sun of Sacramento at 2:00 pm, just after the finish line of a marathon, is understanding a target necessities, for example. But you don’t necessarily need a big bank account for creating a successful project. Got the target, but not the budget.

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What Rejected Cities Can Learn From Amazon’s Feedback And 15 Tips For Attracting Business Investment To Your Community) 

YoungUpstarts

And, as the Wall Street Journal reported last week, cities that didn’t make the short list — among them Detroit, Cincinnati, and Sacramento — are rushing to make changes based on Amazon’s feedback on where they fell short. Janesville, Wisconsin, had a billboard advertising their ‘shovel-ready’ land.

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Transform Data's Impact: Pick The Right Success KPI!

Occam's Razor

For your Display Advertising campaigns, picking any Success KPI close to buying (ex: Revenue) usually is a mistake. The creative is the ad we see on TV or TikTok, it is the lines of text in your Bing ad, and it is the (hopefully not annoying) image, text, animation, call to action, in your Display ad currently running in the Sacramento Bee.

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Five Questions with: Douglas McGray, Editor-in-Chief of California Sunday Magazine

Hunter Walker

We create a great reading experience for the web, as well as a print edition, which gets delivered with select Sunday editions of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Sacramento Bee. And that reach that would appeal, right away, to national advertisers. HW: Why “California” Sunday ? Texas Sunday ?