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The dashboard has finally been perfected

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One of the biggest problems I have as a small businessman is keeping track of everything: RSS feeds, competitors, backend performance data, social media mentions and trends, sales cycles, reputation warnings, revenue data, my inboxes, my calendar, key RSS feeds, search performance, tasks, and a million other sources of data. Google AdSense.

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What Groupon Showed Us About Google

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That is, if they turn into something they are not and that Groupon most certainly is: a sales organization. Groupon has 1,500 sales reps scouring the landscape for SMBs that are willing to give up a significant portion of their revenue on a deal to get new business that many say is questionable.

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Selling is to hunting like marketing is to trapping

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Even if you’re coddled by a sales team or protected by the full force of an agency, you’re developing the skills associated with selling and marketing. Are you a brilliant genius when it comes to search engine optimization? Are you a digital PR god ? Do you live and breathe social media marketing ? People value your connections.

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Can Google find you in your online store?

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” And you be like: “well, those are essential expenses, the website is just nice to have — we never get any sales from there.” ” And Google be like: “that’s because you suck at it, and I don’t want you in my Google Flagship Mall until you shop half-assing this whole thing.

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You never get a second chance to make a first impression

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Coner won me at hello because he won me with his personality.

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My social media marketing posts from 2011

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You need everything that you could possibly need to have your post make sense on the same page, within the same post. Yes, earned media outreach and engagement also has an agenda. Remember, Google needs to populate at least ten compelling results — make sure you own all of them. Social is a very handy way of dominating search.

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Google+ on its Third Birthday

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The reason is probably because the illustration probably takes the eye too powerfully away from paid contextual advertising, which is antithetical to Google’s desire to make lots and lots of money from Google Adwords and Adsense ads. Clubs never form because they get to pay dues, sell ads, run bake sales or hold raffles.