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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

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If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. The truth is that even I cannot copy what I did to get my first customer. At Smart Bear, for example, I got my first 50 customers through AdWords. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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