I tried every marketing tool to build my small business but nothing worked until I went all in on SEO — within 2 years, I was making $1 million in annual revenue

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Meredith Noble, cofounder of Learn Grant Writing.

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  • Meredith Noble's grant-writing education business was struggling to succeed by the end of 2020.
  • With a marketing budget spread too thin, Noble decided to focus solely on SEO.
  • A targeted approach helped the company reach $1 million in annual revenue within two years.
  • This article is part of "Marketing for Small Business,"

The life and career of departing Costco CEO Craig Jelinek, who's worked at the retail giant since the '80s – and eats its famous $1.50 hot dog plain

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Costco CEO Craig Jelinek will step down after more than a decade in the role.

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  • Costco CEO Craig Jelinek has been with the company since 1984, working his way up through the ranks.
  • Jelinek succeeded Costco cofounder Jim Sinegal as CEO in 2012, and plans to step down after 11 years.
  • He advocated for raising the minimum wage and helped grow Costco into a $254 billion retail giant.

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FCC greenlights superfast Wi-Fi tethering for AR and VR headsets

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The FCC unanimously approved plans by several tech companies to use the 6GHz band for wireless devices on the same day it voted to move forward with restoring net neutrality rules.

FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposed the new rules, which would authorize very low power (VLP) operations — meaning their signals won’t be able to go very far — in about 850MHz of the

Home sales have plummeted to their lowest in 13 years as 8% mortgage rates batter the housing market

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Sky-high mortgage rates keep battering the US housing market, with the 30-year fixed mortgage clocking in at 8% this week.

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  • Existing home sales slid 15% year-over-year in September, according to NAR data. 
  • Sales are the lowest in 13 years as high mortgage rates take a toll on the US housing market. 
  • The rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage notched 8% this week, per Mortgage News

Google's highly competitive APM program was the key to jump-starting my career. Here's what it was like and how much I make as a product manager.

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Arjun Lalwani is a former associate product manager at Google.

Arjun Lalwani

  • Arjun Lalwani is a former associate product manager at Google. 
  • He said the APM program is so competitive that landing an interview is like hitting a gold mine.
  • Arjun said that he took big risks in his interviews to make himself stand out.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Arjun Lalwani, a 26-year-old

OpenAI is opening up DALL-E 3 access

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OpenAI is launching wider availability of its latest text-to-image generator. On Thursday, the company is giving ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers access to the new DALL-E 3 model that works within the ChatGPT app. OpenAI says it has prepared a safety mitigation stack for the model that makes it ready for an expanded release.

DALL-E 3 was first announced

YouTube wants to launch an AI-powered tool that lets you sound like your favorite singer, report says

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YouTube wants to let users create AI-generated vocals.

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  • YouTube wants to launch a AI feature to let users make music using their favorite singers' voices.
  • It's been delayed by ongoing talks with record companies about the rights needed to train AI software. 
  • The arrival of AI-generated music has created significant legal issues for the music industry. 

YouTube wants to launch an AI feature