Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said. November 7, 2008 7:41 PM nitesh said.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. We discussed guerilla p.r.,

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – that means a one-time sale product, with a single traffic channel. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – one that only requires a single traffic channel. As for a single traffic source , focus on figuring out one way of generating customers, instead of trying to master all the different traffic channels at once.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – that means a one-time sale product, with a single traffic channel. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Or maybe it’s your keyword well that’s reaching its limits, leaving you with plenty of ideas, but no clear path forward about how to prioritize them or the distribution channels for which they’re best suited. Maybe you’ve been producing content on the same subject for so long that your idea well has run dry. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

The benefit was that I as channeling all of my energy and hard work into something that was mine, but it has also given me the opportunity to be the kind of leader and employer that I want without the red tape of a large company to contend with. At the time, I didn’t have that kind of money, so I learnt SEO for myself.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. I documented my struggle on my YouTube channel, which now garners over 70M views.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I changed it to Motion in 2008 as, at the time, I had a lot of clients in the sports/fitness industry. I named my company RVBlogger and use my company name for my website, YouTube channel, and social media platforms. 21- Took SEO into consideration. 3) I wanted clients to be trusted with other non-Eberl names in the room.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Being a guest on podcast, getting yourself booked on podcast is a really really great SEO tactic, great brand building tactic, Podcast Bookers can get you booked on two to three to four podcast every single month on auto-pilot. In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow. You get great back links. Go check it out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. I do agree on the point of knowing how to channel that marketing pr into hard cash.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

was born on a train from NYC to DC in 2008 when I was reading an article by Annie Prolix in Amtrak magazine about Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love.” The thought process that went into this was wanting to included the word kettlebell in the name for branding and SEO purposes. 25- While watching the Discovery Channel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Do you think a lot of mainstream podcasters are going to start using those as distribution channels? Mike Stelzner: So if you can create answers to questions that people have, prospects have, and they’re searching YouTube and they find your video, then all of a sudden they might subscribe to your channel. John Jantsch: I know.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2015

Outbound marketing is a marketing model that requires a lot of marketing messages to be pushed out through various channels in the hope that the right message makes it to the right person. You do most of the work on the front end building your site, optimizing with SEO and building a website traffic strategy.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): Clicking on Channels shows you the first report. See Page 269. :). None of the four other methods are advisable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s an all in one SEO tool set that’ll help you solve that problem and they have a seven day trial for only $7. Yaniv Masjedi: Exactly, in the early days we were essentially educating the market on moving away from traditional PBX, expensive, clunky, difficult phone systems to the cloud or VoIP back in 2008.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). 25 comments. 0 people listening.

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marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Johns 2008 best-seller, "Always Be Testing", written with business partner Bryan Eisenberg, has been the standard reference for conversion optimization through testing since its release and has been used for the basis of both academic coursework as well as corporate training. Search Engine News, SEO & PPC Info. Daily Email: Got a tip?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Very often when you run branding campaigns your goal is simply to introduce your business (like we are trying to do with Market Motive , our start up that provides certification courses in Web Analytics, SEO, PPC, PR etc etc).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal." This is her core market. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand." Now is not the time to expand.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal." This is her core market. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand." Now is not the time to expand.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

A really nice way to do a multi-channel strategy. Not just the online + offline part (though they all want multi-channel desperately), but the whole cart experience. It also happens to include textual explanations for those amongst us who want to know more (and of course delightfully will help the company's SEO strategy).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I just added more advertising until I combined multiple channels of income and generated some good return that way. That will help with the SEO stuff, generally speaking. I did that with pretty much every website I own. Improve conversions. This is a little bit different.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

At a glance you can see all the big clusters of sources (close to the channels view in Google Analytics). If you are interested in any particular channel, Miscellaneous as an example, you can click on it and… boom! If you were an SEO, or ran all Ecommerce for your company, or were responsible for consumer experience?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

So it was with absolute delight that I wrote a detailed post about the release of Advanced Segmentation feature in Google Analytics in Oct 2008: Google Analytics Releases Advanced Segmentation: Now Be A Ninja! The multi-channel strategy you are executing is unique. Of course Yahoo! You are struggling with your own unique challenges.

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