Learn Advantages for an Entrepreneur For an entrepreneur who chooses to build a business in an existing business ecosystem, participating as a member of an ecosystem may offer the following advantages: 1. Market entry barrier reduction: joining an existing ecosystem can significantly reduce the technology barriers to enter a market, which in turn reduces the time to money, startup costs and ongoing operations costs. 2. Access to customers: ecosystems…
You Want Wealth and Not Money: Ask Former Millionaire Athletes Are African American Athletes the worst Economists around in professional sports? Despite being rewarded with contracts that easily enter 10 digits many have declared Chapter 11. Yes, 11 not 7 because high performance athletics is big business globally and athletes are likewise individualized corporate entities …at least, for branding and marketing purposes. In truth, business is the ultimate true sport; however, many athletes have PROVEN to be…
Get Found using Inbound Marketing This is part of my series on Building a Sales and Marketing Machine. In this post I provide advice for building your own Inbound Marketing machine- a requirement for most businesses today. The web has forever changed people’s buying habits. Instead of needing to rely on sales people to send them information, buyers now have Google and other search engines to research products, find competitors, and see how other people rate those products in blogs…
The Ultimate Gift for Mom: Financial Freedom via Inbound Marketing Well, it's Mother's Day (okay, May 8, 2016) and time to honour the Old Girl, who gave birth to you and plays or played a pivotal role in your success or failure throughout life, just ask her. Oh yes, your FATHER; likewise, deserves the same honour and respect on June 16th 2016, despite less media and corporate advertising on TV and Online. Anyway, time to get down to business and demonstrate…
All search engine marketers are trying desperately to promote trends Especially the trends that are aligned with traditional digital marketing. SEO is immensely important to enhance key to improving your website’s visibility, driving more traffic and better conversion rates. The first thing one can do as an internet marketer is to avoid making mistakes. Following “SEO Best Practices” can be difficult for online marketers. With search engines changing algorithms on a periodic basis, every SEO strategy needs to adapt and…
Glenn E. Fleming, MD, MPH, Contributor, MarketHive (Reposted from Patrick Sexton, https://varvy.com) There are four common types of redirects that affect how your users and Google see your mobile pages. Each of them is bad for performance (speed). They include: * Initial redirect – canonical (www.example.com vs example.com) SSL – secure pages redirect Redirect to mobile version Content driven redirects Content-Driven Redirects Problem Content-driven redirects are not required to display a page. These redirects…
Glenn E. Fleming, MD, MPH, Contributor, MarketHive (Reposted from Patrick Sexton, https://varvy.com) There are four common types of redirects that affect how your users and Google see your mobile pages. Each of them is bad for performance (speed). They include: * Initial redirect – canonical (www.example.com vs example.com) SSL – secure pages redirect Redirect to mobile version Content driven redirects Redirect to mobile version Problem When you have a different web address (url) for…
Glenn E. Fleming, MD, MPH, Contributor, MarketHive (Reposted from Patrick Sexton, https://varvy.com) There are four common types of redirects that affect how your users and Google see your mobile pages. Each of them is bad for performance (speed). They include: * Initial redirect – canonical (www.example.com vs example.com) SSL – secure pages redirect Redirect to mobile version Content driven redirects SSL-Secure Pages Redirect Problem Pages that use SSL will often be redirected from…
Glenn E. Fleming, MD, MPH, Contributor, MarketHive (Reposted from Patrick Sexton, https://varvy.com) There are four common types of redirects that affect how your users and Google see your mobile pages. Each of them is bad for performance (speed). They include: * Initial redirect – canonical (www.example.com vs example.com) SSL – secure pages redirect Redirect to mobile version Content driven redirects Initial Redirect (Canonical) Problem Example: The url "www.example.com" and the url "example.com" are actually two different urls even…
Glenn E. Fleming, MD, MPH, Contributor, MarketHive (Reposted from Patrick Sexton, https://varvy.com) Consequences of Redirects In the past, redirects were oftentimes utilized for various reasons (i.e., SSL redirects). As a result, extremely long redirect chains have occurred. The below example illustrates a typical conversation that occurs often on the mobile web. Please note that this conversation has to take place before any of your webpage even begins to be displayed at all: Mobile device: "Give me http://example.com" Web server: "http://example.com…