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

Both Sides of the Table

Everything we were taught pre-Internet is still relevant. 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. And you thought the Internet was a meritocracy where the best ideas win? What about mobile?

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Doesn’t.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

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DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For a large variety of applications and services, users favor mobile applications over browser based applications. Over 45% of Yelp’s* searches begin on mobile. It’s like magic.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

If you use an off-the-shelf template and your website looks like thousands of other sites on the Internet, you’ll miss an opportunity to create a unique impression. Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Over the last three years we saw an explosion in non-technical work, everything from data entry to customer service to marketing, SEO, SEM, legal, financial… We’ve reached the point now where if a job can be done in front of a computer, somebody’s doing it on oDesk.”. Have laptop – will freelance.

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Fad, Shmad. New Domain Extensions Like.FAMILY Are Here To Stay.

YoungUpstarts

But what happens when you grow your business, start running ad campaigns, have more competition and need to stand out on mobile and the web? The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) summarizes the benefits in this way: Companies can create shorter and easy-to-remember internet addresses.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Consider that your visitors might be visiting from laptops and mobile phones, so try to avoid designing pages for a large monitor size or pages that use more complex features such as flash animation or navigation (flash isn’t supported on the iPhone, for example). Leverage online tools to improve your website.