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What do you do when a big VC firm or a Really Big Company wants to invest and become your strategic partner? Push the euphoria aside and proceed with caution. Anne and Gillian talk about the important questions to ask yourself, and the potential investor, with insights from Elizabeth Yin, partner in 500 Startups, and Patrick Meenan, VC and before that at Microsoft doing acquisitions.

Reaching the Clouds in Cloud Hosting and VoIP as Dush Ramachandran welcomes John Pope, the CEO of Jive Communications. Jive is a cloud based hosted VoIP company (business phones). John is one of the original company founders and has been the CEO since day one. Jive helps businesses save money (normally 50% over their current phone system) and enter the new world of hosted VoIP communications. We have a great program to reward you for any business that would come for this

John and Ross discuss how few links make a large difference in some very high volume terms. Quality links are still the key, widespread link building techniques can rarely create the quality links needed to see these types of results. Listen as they break down the Stone Temple Study and the Google AMP Case Study.

Machine Learning and Trying to Predict Google Rankings as Jim Hedger and Dave Davies speak with JR Oakes, Director of Strategy for Consultwebs, an agency that specializes in online marketing for law firms throughout the United States and internationally. JR wrote a piece in Search Engine Land on machine learning, "An experiment in trying to predict Google Rankings"

What Merchants, Affiliates and Bloggers Must Know About FTC Disclosure Guidelines for 2016 as James Martell speaks with Illinois-based tax attorney Andrew B. Gordon.

Andrew B. Gordon is a CPA and attorney, graduating from the University of Illinois with a BA and Masters Degree in Accounting, and a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Andrew previously worked in tax at a big-four public accounting firm and clerked at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel during law school. Andrew concentrates his legal work in the areas of tax controversies and compliance, corporate litigation, and FTC litigation and compliance.

Improving Conversion Rates for PPC Campaigns as David Szetela speaks with Jamie Smith from Campaign Watch, who offered a webinar entitled Unique Ways to Improve Your PPC Conversion Rates Right Now. Some of the subjects included how to improve user experience by investing in continuity, setting up landing page a/b testing without a 3rd party tool and using competitive intelligence to find insight.

Byron speaks with author Dr. Stuart Shanker on his new book, Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life. Dr. Shanker is a research professor of philosophy at York University and CEO of the MEHRIT Centre, Ltd.. His interests focus on the impact of excessive stress on child development and behavior. In this book, he focuses on the ways to understand and regulate both you and your child’s stress in a calm state.

Want expert tips on how to wield advanced search operators? Virginia Nussey, Kristi Kellogg, Paula Allen and John Alexander share how they use search operators can help you research a site you’re optimizing, locate something specific online, or investigate the competitive field. In the second half of the show, they talk about Facebook response time and why it matters. Kellogg shares how Bruce Clay, Inc. reduced their Facebook response time to under five minutes, and the positive effect this has on a brand’s social engagement

Internet Gun Sales and the Aurora Colorado Movie Theater Shooting with the Curator of the Cherokee Heritage Center and Gun Historian David Kennedy. Kennedy is now Curator of Collections and Exhibits at the U. S. Marshals Museum, Inc.

Today on Purse Strings Maria Reitan is joined by Shauna Mackenzie, founder of Best Kept Self. Best Kept Self is a platform dedicated to the self-care for the busy, burnt-out and overwhelmed business owners who put themselves last on the priority list. They believe business thrives when you thrive. They live to help entrepreneurs regain energy through their health, become more authentic in the way they look and live a more abundant life Shauna started her entrepreneurial career as an image consultant in 2007, launching the first and only full-service image consulting firm in South. A couple years into her consulting career, she noticed a huge need and opportunity to fill a training gap in the image industry by combining the technical education with business building skills.