How to go from one email to 100,000 subscribers: StartupDigest

StartupDigest- the email newsletter that helps you stay informed about the best startup events in your city- was founded by Christopher McCann when he wanted to know about the best startup events in his area. It started with one email to his friends and now StartupDigest has over 100,000 subscribers in just over a year. It now employs a number of staff all over the US and 80 curators all over the world....

1 min · 187 words · Jerry Lane

How to grow and maintain a brilliant blog

I always get a lot of questions about business blogging and how people can improve their own blogs or just get started. There are 100s of posts out there on the topic but I wanted to look at things from a slightly higher level today and see what you can do to create a really remarkable blog. None of these tips are going to pay off overnight and none will turn your blog into a massive hit without hard work but they do work and they are important if you are really serious about this....

8 min · 1530 words · Laura Smith

How to Grow Modern Marketing Skills that Work

The successful marketing mix includes a variety of strategies which are complicated and constantly changing. With the continuing improvement of technology on the web, new marketing skills have become just as integral to a solid marketing mix. Let’s talk about four growing skills in marketing that really count. Conversion Rate Optimization When you can potentiallydouble your revenuewithout doubling your costs, marketers would all ask, “How?” With conversion rate optimization, you’re optimizing your sales funnel to push more people through to customers....

4 min · 788 words · Cole Martinez

How to grow your brand on Facebook: an interview with Buddy Media

Michael Jaindl, better known as “MJ” is the Chief Client Officer ofBuddy Media, an incredibly successful SaaS platform for brand’s Facebook Pages, claiming 8 out of the 10 top global advertisers as clients. MJ was employee #6 when the company launched in 2007. The Buddy Media Platform, essentially a CMS and analytics platform on Facebook is referred to as the “power tools for Facebook” and was launched in March 2009, when Facebook introduced Pages for brands....

5 min · 1020 words · Carmen Howard

How to hack your Windows Phone 7 handset to turn on tethering

If you are into modifying your phone to turn on goodies that your carrier does not think that you are worthy of, we have just the thing for you. If you have an HTC or Dell WP7 handset, you canmake it tether. Fair warning: we are not endorsing modifying your phone. If you break it, that is too bad, don’t whine to us. Know that this sort of thing can void your warranty and contract before you make a move....

3 min · 508 words · Andrew Houston
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