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Good Advise In Today’s Tough Economy

I was reading one of our clients blog and thought you might appreciate what Howard Schultz of Starbucks had to say to Katie Couric of CBS. As John Damiano of the The Providence Group point out in this 5 minute video, “Listen especially to the part where he gives advice to the entrepreneur in a [...]

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Have You Bought Into the “R” Word Yet?

It’s a recession, folks. They have officially brought out the “R” word across all news media. Because they used the “R” word everybody’s first reaction seems to be to pull back. Time to give up. Acting just plain old scared. Are those days gone when a B2B team would take risks by pushing creative boundaries? [...]

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Great Landing Page Design (Part 2)

Here are the Top 10 Landing Page Design Best Practices: Create an information scent trail. A scientific theory, called Optimal Foraging Theory, says that our minds have evolved to forage for information in a certain way. We follow sameness and likeness as we search out new data. So if we want prospects to respond to our [...]

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Great Landing Page Design (Part 1)

Wikipedia defines a landing page as a lead capture page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement or a search-engine result link. The page will usually display content that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link, which is optimized to feature specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search. In Business to [...]

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The 20 Most Essential Blog Directories

Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories. There are many paths to consider when [...]

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