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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

How about in the last 12 months deals announced with Dwolla (Iowa) and Pollenware (Kansas City). I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. From startup Rovio in Finland.

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The Future of Small Business SEO (Hint: It’s About Content)

Duct Tape Marketing

Blogging not only helps to establish your company as an authority, but it’s also proven to increase website traffic conversion rates. In terms of small business websites, blogging represents both the biggest opportunity and the biggest challenge. Most importantly, blogging is the best way to add high quality, relevant content to your website.

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How To Create A Brand Name For Your Company

Duct Tape Marketing

And so they could call themselves Kansas city power and light. But now that they've joined forces and they're no longer sort of the monopolistic utility, Kansas city power and light now ever G a V E R G Y. And I think it's the worst name in the world. If you wanna read those. So either of those sites will work well.

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

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He is a speaker, MC and a television announcer with 25 years or so under his belt, the last 12 with the Kansas City Royals. John Jantsch: I have to tell you, first off, a lot of my listeners know that I’m in Kansas City and that I’m a Kansas City Royals fan that I got a solid single off of Monte at fantasy camp.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

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Matt Watson: Based in the Kansas City area. We didn’t talk about this ahead of time, but that’s what I’m standing in Kansas City, Missouri recording this. John Jantsch: Where was the headquarters for VinSolutions? John Jantsch: That’s what I thought. Matt Watson: Yeah. That part of it was great.

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5 Ways Writing A Book Will Supercharge Your Online Presence

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Conversion Optimization. By promoting and offering an actual book on your website, you now have a killer conversion hook that will convert more first-time web visitors into loyal content consumers, and thus on the path towards conversion. The above list is really just the tip of the iceberg in terms of benefits.

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Transcript of Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other

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And you are based in Kansas city? John Jantsch: I am in Kansas City, Missouri. They want to drive conversion, they want to drive the sales closure. From my perspective, if that’s the case there should be a very honest conversation between sales and marketing. So Pam, thanks for joining me.

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