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4 Tips for Leading a Startup To Success
1. Know where you're going: Set actionable and attainable goals over a marked period of time.
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Tips and Tools For Writing a Stronger Business Plan
1. Start with an executive summary, which is absolutely essential.
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Re: How We Can Support Local Merchants While Social Distancing
In many cases, carry-out services will still be available at restaurants, and grocery stores are still open for now. Small and local businesses, as well as hourly employees are most definitely going to feel the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Re: Is Guest Blogging the only way to get traffic?
Guest posting is definitely one of the best ways to drive targeted traffic to your website. But it is not the only one. There are many other ways to get quality website traffic.
- Search Engine Optimization: First, you need to find low competition keywords related to your business. There are many keyword research tools (both free and paid) that can help you find them. Once you find the keywords, create high-quality content optimized around them. If you optimize your pages around low-competition keywords, you could rank in the search results very easily. You won't have to build tons of backlinks to get to the first page of Google.
- Social Media: You need to post quality content that people will want to like and share. It can attract links and traffic.
- Youtube: When it comes to getting information about something, most people prefer watching videos instead of reading a boring blog post. So, making informative videos can help you attract more people to your business.
- Email Marketing: Email marketing is another digital marketing strategy that can help you get quality traffic. You can Google search to find out how you can increase your email subscribers fast.
Thank you,
Rupam Ganguly from RG Web Space
Re: How to Generate Traffic to Handmade Jewelry Website
Hi Jenn!
In my opinion, you need to do some of the following:
+ You should optimize your website. You can use iSEO24h.com - one seo toolkit free! to do that;
+ Find more social networks;
+ Join target groups and share the value of contents for them with hagtag;
+ Use services of ads from these social networks like facebook ads, google ads, linkedin ads...
<=> All it has to pull traffic back to your website with a skillful way;
==> YOu should create some popup of ads into your websites to attract and keep visitors staying on your site for as long as possible (You can user Trigger365.com to do that);
I hope It's usefull with you!
Re: How were you able to build a following for your start-up?
Try once again. Here are some tips:-
Start With An Awesome Product. Incredibly obvious but the best way to start gaining traction is by offering an amazing product.
Brand Yourself.
Connect With Influencers.
Do Things That Don't Scale.
Leverage Your Email List.
Test Everything.
Create Original Content.
Re: How to test e-commerce product acceptance in real life before putting it on sale?
This will base on the Headline you use to capture the attention of the right audience,right target market depending on the product or niche. There companies with good product but when they fail to reach the right audience ,business fail,so what the product,benefits not futures then reach the right audience with a catchy headline