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Which of These 3 Case Studies Will Grow Your Sales?

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November 2007 was a weird couple weeks.

It was my third month on the job and I’d just received management duties for an entire business unit. While this was a sweet opportunity, it came with high stakes: I was expected to grow revenue immediately. It didn’t matter that I was a rookie and the previous manager had been a vet.

Sometimes, you either perform or get out of the way.

Somehow, I figured

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What You Ought to Do If You’ve Been Punished by Google’s Penguin Update

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If you’ve experienced a drop in traffic since mid-March…then more than likely you were penalized by one of Google’s recent actions.

Which one of those updates is hard to tell, but the biggest one was the Penguin update, which seemed to take a lot of people by surprise.

In order to help you understand exactly what the Penguin update was…and how other actions by Google during this time, like their parked

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The Beginner’s Guide to Mobile App Marketing

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Getting your app discovered is the fundamental challenge every app marketer faces. With millions of apps across iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and other platforms, standing out in the boundless sea of available apps is becoming increasingly difficult.

The best app marketers will pursue a comprehensive, well-rounded app marketing strategy that includes pre-launch work and post-launch work. The best strategies will include organic and paid app marketing channels.

Here’s the complete guide to

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How to Get a Boatload of People to Pin Your Products to Pinterest

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Pinterest is now the third most-popular social network in the U.S., and the best part about Pinterest is that it is an image driven site, and people love browsing image after image. And if your business is a product based one, you’re a great fit for Pinterest.

If you have a service business, you can still leverage Pinterest, but it will probably be through other means such as

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The Alex Mangini Story: Learn how an 18-year old skipped college to make $120,000 a year

You need a college degree to succeed, right? Sure, it does help give you a leg up on your competition, but to be an entrepreneur you don’t need one.

I recently ran into Quick Sprout reader, Alex Mangini, who was sharing his story with me. Within minutes I was amazed at his story because he was telling me how he went from making nothing to $10,000 a month in less than a year.

So I naturally started to dig a bit deeper and ask him a few more questions, but the conversation took a drastic turn. As

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6 Ways to Generate More Traffic Out of Your Images

There is nothing worse than waiting for a page to load. As a user you probably get impatient won’t wait that long…and if it’s your site that is taking so long to download, understand that for every additional second of download time you lose 7% of your conversions!

So naturally you would want to strip out anything from your website that isn’t necessary… such as images, right?

But here’s the issue…images are so much more important these days, especially for blog posts. Images explain complex information, they are easier to consume and they generate more social

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Want a 150% Boost in Traffic? Then Use This Idiot-Proof Guide to Google Authorship Markup

Back in January 2012, search marketing firm Catalyst confirmed the classic SEO theory that rich snippet does indeed increase CTR and traffic.

Here’s what there analytics looked like:

That amounts to a 150% increase in visits and page views!

So by implementing Google’s authorship markup and getting the rich snippet to show up for their content, Catalyst dramatically improved their performance in search engines.

If you don’t exactly know what I’m talking about, let me give you an example of what rich snippet is and how it pertains to Google’s authorship markup.

Google “seo advice”

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The Secret to Getting Highly Targeted Traffic from StumbleUpon

Since late 2010, StumbleUpon has been one of the top sources of social media traffic in the US, even surpassing Faceboook as a referrer.

In fact, using StumbleUpon to drive traffic to your site can produce some amazing results. According to Shell Harris, StumbleUpon basically built her website TopTenz. Here are some of her stumble numbers that she shared:

That’s huge traffic that can create some pretty lucrative income stream. The only problem is that traffic isn’t very targeted and your conversion may suck.

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a modest stream of

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The Real Secret to 1,000 Blog Subscribers in 60 Days or Less

Back in the day when blogging was the only thing in town, you could rely on a handful of faithful readers to help spread the word about your blog.  Over time you would slowly accumulate a following and eventually reach the status of a popular blogger. Sadly, that model would never work today.

There are just way too many people with blogs.

The new model flips the old model on its head…you now have to go straight to the celebrity bloggers, get their attention and then have them endorse you.

Look at Arianna Huffington. She didn’t start out at

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8 Marketing Lessons from RIM’s Slow Death

It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago Research In Motion (RIM) was the smartphone leader. Now the joke is that there is nothing smart about a BlackBerry.

It’s also hard to believe that so-called “crackberry users” are now giving up their beloved phones for an Android or iPhone device.

What happened?

A lot, in fact, has happened that allowed RIM to lose its grip on their market. You can learn a few marketing lessons from their failure that you can apply to your business to keep you and your business growing.

Here are 8:

Lesson #1: Control

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