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Spirit of the Entrepreneur!

Entrepreneurs posses a driving spirit: You hear it all the time from famous business owners: They started flexing their entrepreneurial skills by selling lemonade on the corner, building gadgets in their garage or hosting weekly college beer pong tournaments before they were running multimillion-dollar companies. It would appear that behind every mogul that is successful a kid who was raised knowing these people were born for business. But what is it that sets entrepreneurs apart from the remainder? What is…

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Google Uses Alexa’s Information For Ranking and Indexing!

The Alexa Toolbar: Why You Need this Piece of "%#*&%@#". Google Uses Alexa’s Information For Ranking and Indexing! So you’re probably wondering why I have the Alexa Toolbar Installed on my browser and why I tell my fellow marketers, webmasters and SEO gurus to do the same. It’s simple. The Alexa  toolbar monitors all my surfing and collects information about what domains I visit. They don’t know that it’s “me” – they collect it as anonymous user data and use…

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How Being Genuine Can Strengthen You, Your Business, and Your Company

Glenn E. Fleming, MD, MPH, Contributor, MarketHive Recently, I came across an article written by Mamta Chhikara (http://hive.pe/eC), which goes on to list and describe specific qualities that a genuine person possesses: *They don’t seek attention = Modest *They’re not concerned with being liked = Confident and Authentic *They can tell when others are full of it = Intuitive (a good judge of character) *They are comfortable in their own skin = Self-assured and confident *They do what they say and say…

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41 Tips that Get Over 10,000 People to your Email Sub List

Of course, not everyone struggles to reach these different stages.  Some people skyrocket to success in a few weeks, other people do well with traffic levels but not with your mailing list. This particular blog has well over 10,000 people on the mailing list and gets a few thousand visitors per day. In this post I’m going to show you a few really cool lessons I’ve learned while building it up to this level – a level that I think…

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Why You Must Become An Entrepreneur

Why You Must Become An Entrepreneur If anyone has lately been searching for a job lately it soon becomes clear that it’s not just startups that do not want traditional employees, Google does not want them, small businesses don’t want them, agencies don’t want them. Who do they want then? Entrepreneurs And companies are using lots of resources to get them. For example 30% of large tech companies have already set up a seed fund to provide capital for startup…

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Rise of the Entrepreneur — Get Started Now!

Rise of the Entrepreneur — Get Started Now! While being your own boss can be scary and a little risky, it’s not as difficult as people think. You do have to be someone who loves his freedom, likes to be able to set his own schedule and likes to work on things he’s excited about. Is that all there is to it? No, it takes a ton of hard work, and an ability to learn from your mistakes, and an…

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The 23 Suggestions to Improve Your Writing Skills

The 23 Suggestions to Improve Your Writing Skills Words are hard. Whether you're a published author or just getting started with blogging, it's not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good and makes the reader feel something. But every marketer should be able to write — and, more importantly, every marketer can write. It's just a matter of finding the writing environment that works best for you, expanding your vocabulary, asking for feedback…

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How to Target the Right People with Mobile Marketing

How to Target the Right People with Mobile Marketing Everywhere you go, you can see someone using their cell phone. Many times they are not using it to talk, but to search the Internet, downloading an application or accessing a social networking site. Why not use that knowledge to grow your business? Here are some mobile marketing tips that are sure to get you going. If you operate an off line business like a restaurant, small store, or any other local location, make…

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The Amount of Questionable Online Traffic Will Blow Your Mind

The Amount of Questionable Online Traffic Will Blow Your Mind The World Wide rip-off Click Fraud Detection PPCSecure A few weeks ago, Lindsay Buescher, senior manager, analytics at Carat, read an article on Adweek.com about a company called FreeStreams.com that was pumping up its traffic by enticing Web users into accidentally visiting via hidden links on sites that house pirated content. As it happened, one of her agency’s clients, Red Bull, was a FreeStreams advertiser. Buescher was determined to find…

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The Alleged $7.5 Billion Fraud in Online Advertising

A 'Crisis' in Online Ads: One-Third of Traffic Is Bogus As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rampant fraud.   About 36% of all Web traffic is considered fake, the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit sites, according to estimates cited recently by the Interactive Advertising Bureau trade group.   So-called bot traffic cheats…

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