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So what happens when the entire marketing basis for your company nearly disappears? Google changes did just that to iheartrepair.com. Josh Muccio grew the company with an investor pitch under the concept, “Broken phones make girls cry.” But when his online business dried up, Josh explains how he shifted strategies to local geographic marketing to continue — and surpass — company growth.
Show Notes
The book to help you systemize your business: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber.
For serious eCommerce, Josh recommended Shopify.
Website Enhancements we mentioned:
- To measure and improve the speed of your website, use the free Pingdom website speed test.
- For site speed improvements and a free SSL: Cloudflare
- WordPress plugin to redirect old URLs to new ones (and track 404 errors): Redirection
- WordPress plugin to connect your site to numerous free resources from WordPress.com: JetPack
Good example of a “newsjacking” technique (getting in front of traffic):
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