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Five Tools You Need for Your Startup Business

Five Tools You Need for Your Startup Business Starting a business can be equal parts exciting and stressful. The fun aspects of blazing your own trail can be offset by long work days and intense pressure to perform. Luckily, in our modern world, people are constantly creating tools to help ambitious entrepreneurs make their journey […]

6 Tools to Improve Your SEO Game in 2018

6 Tools to Improve Your SEO Game in 2018 Digital marketing may be constantly evolving, but one thing that doesn’t change is the importance of search engine optimization (SEO). Climbing the search rankings means more organic traffic coming to your website, and that means greater revenues. If you’re handling your site’s SEO, there are plenty […]

Career Opportunities in Cryptocurrencies

Career Opportunities in Cryptocurrencies With Cryptocurrencies rapid growth over the past two years, corporations are racing to recognize individuals to further research and develop the field. Job listings including the words ‘blockchain,’ ‘Bitcoin,’ or ‘cryptocurrency’ have increased by 621% since November 2015. These jobs include a plethora of roles including sales associates, reporters, DevOps engineers, […]

How a Social Community Can Improve Your Business

How a Social Community Can Improve Your Business Community represents a group of people communicating various topics of mutual interest. Groups and connections can exist on any channel but a community is channel agnostic, and social media, on the other hand, is very channel specific. Understanding the difference between a community and a social medium […]

4 Ways Bitcoin is Making its Mark in the Video Games Industry

4 Ways Bitcoin is Making its Mark in the Video Games Industry For years now, video games have been a huge money-making industry worldwide. The development of new technology has evolved video games into the perfect blend of entertainment, recreation and socialization. In fact, recent studies have found that over 1.2 billion people play video […]

How to Create an Ideal Remote Startup Team

How to Create an Ideal Remote Startup Team Building a remote team culture has been a subject of discussion for some time now. Big corporations are investing a huge amount of money just to keep their employees at premises — they offer a wide array of perks such as free meals and gym access. However, […]

Twitter Makes a Naughty List

Twitter Makes a Naughty List In an effort to curb hate crime and harassment, Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council is making a naughty list to ban certain individuals and groups. Starting today, the following will be suspended: Extremist groups Groups engaged in violence People or groups targeting civilians Twitter has previously suspended high-level profiles such […]

9 Tools to Never Stop Finding Great Content Ideas

9 Tools to Never Stop Finding Great Content Ideas Everyone runs out of content ideas. This is the inescapable truth of working on a blog, and it is 1000 times worse for anyone who also uses content for marketing. You are not only competing with other blogs, but other brands as well. Having to come […]

10 Tips for YouTube SEO

10 Tips for YouTube SEO YouTube is a website that sees a lot of traffic on a daily basis. As a matter of fact, experts estimate that there are 30 million active users who log in every single day. Of course, a large portion of those users also create their own original content and upload […]

A Basic Guide to Stopping Bot Traffic on Your Website

A Basic Guide to Stopping Bot Traffic on Your Website Although Google Analytics does a good job at giving an overview of what happens on your website, they only provide partial information about your website’s traffic. You may be surprised to learn that more than half of your server hits are derived from bots or […]