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Startup Marketing Metrics that Matter

Wednesday, 25 November 2015 by Paul O'Brien

While today’s entrepreneurs are fascinated with Eric Ries, Peter Thiel, Steve Blank and Seth Godin (and rightly so), I fear I’m too frequently referring to an unheard of an esteemed author from decades ago; as though the entreprneuers of today are happy being ignorant of the past and willingly doomed to repeat the mistakes of

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Entre to the Internet; Marketing for Startups

Thursday, 17 July 2014 by Paul O'Brien

Thanks to the incredible startup program at Houston’s Rice University, I’ve had a chance to update a popular, but out of date, post about Startup Marketing. In the process, I had a chance to meet the exceptional entrepreneurs in this year’s Owlspark program. While not too dissimilar from that startup marketing post, this update touches

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The Only Thing You Need to Know About SEO

Friday, 27 December 2013 by Paul O'Brien

Austin, Texas is still an “SEO Community.” What do I mean by that? I’ve been in Austin three years now and the amount of time I spend advising startups why their desire to hire an SEO is misplaced, is astonishing. To this day, I’m introduced in social settings here as an SEO, clients refer to

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Published in Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Search

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Cospace.co Grows to Serve All Work Spaces – Austin’s Cospace Coworking Closes

Tuesday, 22 January 2013 by Paul O'Brien

Last week, the Cospace brand evolved to focus on serving entrepreneurs and professionals throughout the world as our web service continues to aggregate and promote work spaces; providing economic and real estate intelligence. In July 2012, we launched https://cospace.co to index and promote every work environment; connecting skilled professionals with the right place to work.

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Startup Marketing

Tuesday, 01 January 2013 by Paul O'Brien

Not long ago, I had the distinct pleasure of joining an incredible group of Austin entrepreneurs through AUSOME (Austin Online Marketing for Entrepreneurs) for a discussion of the Art of Startup Marketing. Thanks to David Vogelpohl, founder of Marketing Clique and Tapfire Mobile, I finally took a few minutes to put pen to powerpoint to

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It’s The End Of The Rank As We Know It…

Monday, 17 December 2012 by Paul O'Brien

In honor of the forthcoming end of the world, I wanted to spend a few minutes to share with you some perspective on the state of SEO. Yes, I know, SEO’Brien actually still spends time on search engine optimization. Truth be told, my old library analogy still stands the test of time as one of

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Seth Godin’s Circles of Marketing

Friday, 10 August 2012 by Paul O'Brien

As an SEO, my years and marketing have long been spent trying to convince other marketing professionals, product managers, and executives in a company that the work we do in SEO can not be done in a silo. The success of search engine optimization is DEPENDENT on all other levels of the organization from the

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