Does author Carl Schramm truly believe entrepreneurs should “Burn The Business Plan” as the provocative title of his book suggests? If you were to ask the former president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the answer would likely be no. Schramm’s colorfully titled, Burn The Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do does offer plenty […]
This week, I returned from a two week trip back to my birth country of Scotland. I took the trip with my good friend, Sam Fiorella, who had wanted to do this trip for a few years (he was meant to do it two years ago for his 50th birthday). Given my own 50th is
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Failures happen all the time in business. Maybe you poured a lot of time and money into creating a new product that nobody responded well to. Or, you might have run out of cash right before it was time to pay your bills. Setbacks don’t always mean it’s time to close shop or file for
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It can be difficult to demonstrate the value of social media to a client, especially if they’re building a social presence for the first time. But through targeted goal-setting, you can create a metrics-driven environment that helps your client see results. A client may not see the immediate value in the time spent directly engaging
After the frenzy of holiday buying is over, many e-commerce companies struggle to convert their holiday purchasers into regular customers and drive revenue at the start of the year. You probably had an influx of new buyers purchasing gifts during the holidays, but many of them may not be interested in buying again. In fact,
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Picography / Pixabay Have you been thinking that your side gig is doing really well? Perhaps it’s just reached a point where you say to yourself, “Hey, with a little push, this could be a real business!” That’s a great place to be. It’s a place full of surprise and optimism, and the idea that
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Join a gym, start that diet, call your parents more and turn over a new leaf for your SEO strategy. Whether you’re a stickler for New Year’s resolutions, or the very thought makes you roll your eyes, reviewing your SEO habits for 2018 should be a priority for every business and digital marketer. You don’t
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By Aaron Agius There was a time when marketers used blogging as a way to manipulate search engines and artificially inflate rankings. By churning out subpar content and accumulating dubiously sourced backlinks, you could make your site more visible than your competitors—regardless of whether or not this visibility was warranted. Fortunately, Google has been clamping
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By Arthur Menard, co-founder and CEO of SPARTAN. “Shoot for the moon,” or “Set high goals for yourself,” is advice you have probably heard dozens of times already. Yet every new year the same cycle repeats itself: “This year I will go to the gym every day,” “I will stop smoking this year,” and “I’m going
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Time is the most sought after resource on the web, short of an actual sale. But why? Time is a proxy that’s representative of attention. If users spend more time on your site, they’re paying you more attention. Right? Well, not so fast. In this post, I’ll break down how time on site is calculated
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