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Forget PageRank: Here’s why you should focus on ranking instead

Search Engine Land

Service providers circumnavigate this challenge by offering alternative rank names and values, presumably representative of what Google uses internally. Therefore, focusing on building PageRank-passing backlinks is akin to gambling and hoping to hit the jackpot. Unique selling proposition. Performance.

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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

The Lost Book of Sales

Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Being sales vs. market driven when crossing the chasm. One of the most important lessons about crossing the chasm is that the task ultimately requires achieving an unusual degree of company unity during the crossing period.