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    Do Facebook ads work for you?

    That's not quite accurate. We ran FB campaigns for a hosting company project in which we grouped certain countries together, with global coverage (except the excluded countries). Facebook works well for both B2B and B2C if you have the 4P's sorted, understand your USP's and have a clear idea...
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    Performance Automotive Shop

    Yeah, always loved performance cars. Never knew they come such unusual packages though. BMW car converted to a pickup with a V8 swap. Mitsubishi Colt with an EVO engine and drivetrain. 600+ horsepower in a 600kg package - an absolute beast. All good fun - but how much horsepower is ever...
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    Performance Automotive Shop

    Settling in to working at JMA and am amazed at the number of big horsepower Subaru and Mitsubishi cars coming in for upgrades. Like a kid in a candy store :)
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    Backlinks for SEO/SERP

    Google still relies on links for relevance, trust and rankings. A couple of years ago I noticed that a previous client site had picked up some major rankings gains for their core keywords (several across multiple pages). They hadn't been buying links but had gotten mentions on related sites...
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    Backlinks for SEO/SERP

    As fisicx has pointed out - guest posting can bring in some traffic, but rarely massive. It can be good for backlink building and can gain some amount of brand familiarity by introducing you to part of your target audience. However, you can gain so much more exposure with a bit of on-domain...
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    Whatsapp Business

    If an 8p text is being used to remind someone for their MOT, annual service or other paid work, then it's insignificant - especially if it's an automated tool that doesn't require your intervention. If an 8p text is being used to update a customer that they need to come in and pick up their...
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    Starting a wine brand from overseas

    If you want to know step by step what it will take (and cost) to go from zero to hero in the wine space, speak to Scot McRae at McRae & Company (current he's headlong into https://candidateid.com) in Glasgow. Scot was instrumental in making Bibendum a powerhouse and has been there and done...
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    Buying a full time retail job

    Paying the property owner a percentage of sales turnover (not profit), since someone who is good at bookkeeping would make sure there was never a profit showing on the books, so they didn't have to pay back any rent/lease/property fees.
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    Construction Startups- Grow Together

    Yeah, if you've already got an audience, whether it's social media, email lists, or through other means, then that's a great answer to the question. Being able to tap into that is a great way to get your startup off the ground without spending tons on PPC advertising to jump start it. One...
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    Email Frequency

    For those of you who do take the time to email market to your clients (and prospects), how often are you contacting them? In several projects of the not too distant past, we relied on 2x a month contact, using one as an editorial piece with useful content and no obvious sales pitches. The...
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    Construction Startups- Grow Together

    Um, how does a brand new site reach 40,000 workers when no one knows about it?
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    Buying a full time retail job

    Have you taken a look at what happens to dieing streets filled with 1/2 the shops closed? They become streets filled with 3/4 of the shops closed. While iron mongers are a specialty that people will go out of their way for - all it takes is one other shop in a prominent location doing what you...
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    Marketing to B&B's

    Heh 'proper' businesses can benefit from online marketing - well most of them anyway.
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    Is Google having a big push at Google Shopping?

    It's not like Google is worried about the shopper end result - just the advertiser front-loaded payment, like all the other ad-spam and ad-disguising techniques they're using. Have you seen the beta shots of them not using the 'ad' markup around the ads? Remember how obvious ads were...
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    Reversing a 301 Re-direct

    Try and see. A browser will not get stuck on a site with a prior cached inbound 301 pointing into it, once the 301 is set pointing away from it. Instead of arguing you should be testing to confirm LOL.
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