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Month: June 2015

Events Marketing June 17, 2015

How to Cheat at Creating Great Presentations for Tech & Marketing Audiences

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
I speak a lot. I make a lot of decks. Heck, I’m even on the board of presentation software startup, HaikuDeck. In the last 3 years, I’ve given nearly 80 unique presentations at 100+ events in the technology and marketing fields. A good percent of the time, I get scores back from the organizers telling me how the audience perceived…
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Events Hiring Moz Startups June 9, 2015

Why I Believe in Intentional Efforts to Increase Diversity

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Wil Reynolds is one of my closest friends. When I reflect on people I love, respect, and want to spend time with (even when I’m in my introvert state), Wil is on the top of that list (along with his wife, Nora). But, that doesn’t mean we see eye to eye on everything. In an on-stage interview last month, Wil…
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Marketing Startups June 3, 2015

The “Pester Your Potential Lead Until They Hate You” Approach to SaaS Sales Sucks

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
I caught this tweet from Peep Laja (someone I admire greatly and whose advice I generally think is gold) today: This was one of the rare times I disagreed with Peep (or at least with my initial interpretation of this tip), and so I replied, wanting to provide some nuance but limited by Twitter’s short-format. Hence this blog post to…
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Data June 2, 2015

The Traffic Prediction Accuracy of 12 Metrics from Compete, Alexa, SimilarWeb, & More

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Services that claim to predict the traffic websites receive have been around for 15+ years, but I’ve long been skeptical of their accuracy (having seen how poorly some have predicted traffic on sites whose analytics I accessed). In 2012, I ran a project to test the veracity of the numbers reported by some of these tools, and came away very…
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