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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

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It’s one of the main reasons startup founders often shy away from reasonable SEO pricing models , opting instead for the riskier, cheap, outsourced route or the DIY approach—which are both fraught with their own perils. Even some of the best idea-based startups are no further in process than a non-profit struggling to survive.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

It’s one of the main reasons startup founders often shy away from reasonable SEO pricing models, opting instead for the riskier, cheap, outsourced route or the DIY approach —which are both fraught with their own perils. Even some of the best idea-based startups are no further in process than a non-profit struggling to survive.

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I Will Review Your Website for Free

Software By Rob

What I’ve found during the last year of running the Micropreneur Academy is that once you’ve seen hundreds of websites and run fifty A/B tests you develop a sixth sense about how a site can be improved. You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know).

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

Software By Rob

Likewise, if you see the massive amount of traffic coming from SEO you have to know how many of those people are buying your product. The purpose of traffic is to convert into customers or provide SEO benefit. The purpose of traffic is to convert into >customers or provide SEO benefit. 2 Rob on 01.12.10 3 Dan on 01.12.10

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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

Software By Rob

This is a common line of SEO salesmen say to justify paying them month after month. I can say this is the general consensus of SEO’s I know who don’t do consulting, and it’s also supported by my own experiments. #6 For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 5 Rob on 10.14.10

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Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books

Software By Rob

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Pop vs. non-pop business books isn’t the problem, it’s the attitude that there are ‘secrets’ to getting rich other than the obvious: work hard, be smart, and be lucky. #12

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A you have to truly bare your soul if you want to compete on the transparency front. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. Making Oprah cry.