YFS Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you’re not keeping up with those changes, you could be using SEO techniques that haven’t worked since 2010.

SEO 115

SEO Engineer Search Sales 115

Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Take, for instance, a 2010 marketing snafu by Gap. Is it increasing sales by 20 percent per quarter? Strategies for various stages in the sales cycle. SEO is one way of helping your customers find you based on the solutions you can offer them. In the end, HubSpot used what they learned to improve their sales process.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Campaign Sales Cycle 109

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

Methods of reaching consumers change every year (compare SEO or AdWords strategies from 2003 and 2010). Use that rolodex to set up meetings and sales calls, but don’t assume you know what they’re going to say. Industries built around control of information are now out of control (real estate, publishing).

Lean 269

Lean Software Software Developers Software Development 269

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

25 Super Common SEO Mistakes – [link]. Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. 11 Ways Your Startup Can Deliver Support That Will Increase Sales – [link]. Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. Their best course is to stabilize the brand.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. View more jobs » View Comments Ryan Rosado Wednesday 27, 2010 @ 1:14 am This is wonderful resource/nugget for budding entrepreneurs (as myself).

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Abraham: Gin Consulting Group serves their clients by aligning their plans through strategic planning, activating their people through scalable people SAAS+ platform, and amplifying their reach through marketing (specifically through SEO and LinkedIn Strategy). I was a pea harvester, driving a dump truck sized combine at the age of 16.

Leadership 167

Leadership Founder Technical Review Entrepreneur 167

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

This pretty much rules out SEO, PPC, affiliate marketing, etc. Campus sales reps is a good strategy that Chris is experimenting with, as well as marketing to camp directors. Being a domain expert in the biomedical field, and not having much experience in marketing and sales, Satish is hitting the wall on business development.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff. With Google’s ability marry advertising with offers and a local portal this could prove very disruptive to Groupon, but also to many local portals services such as Yelp!

Small Business 66

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Kristen is doing about $70,000 year-to-date, and expects to hit $200,000 for the 2010 fiscal year based on her holiday sales projections. Shirish had a pricing model question, as well as a set of go-to-market and sales strategy questions. These are women in their 40s to early 60s, often shopping for younger women.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In This number is heavily dependant on the productivity of your sales teams.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger. Plus, since spammers rely heavily on popular keywords, names generated solely with SEO in mind can seem spammy. Just don’t forsake that natural ability because you’re so focused on domain names, SEO and empty vessels. Is It Sticky?

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tips for helping you get you there include: Have a good website to serve as your business’s online hub (ideally, one with an Open-source CMS that’s feature-rich and offers the opportunity to take advantage of integrations, such as those for SEO and social media). Success builds upon itself. It doesn’t always work that way!

Social Media 114

Social Media Syndicate Syndication SEO 114

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 10, 2010

I want to reduce the barriers to taking action, so things like tech, design, seo and syndication are handled for me, so I can go to work doing what I do best – creating content and formulating strategies. sales letter design. sales copy. However I don’t want to take on the role of managing this team. copywriting.

Business Model 75

Business Model Affiliate Philippines Syndicate 75

Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

My apps range from an SEO keyword tool , an ASP.NET invoicing system , a web application for creating wedding websites , and a few handful of others. The bottom line is that many successful startups (far more than you hear about) are masters at SEO. And I’d been a user since 2006.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. sales and marketing. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

Software Review 48

Software Review SEM Marketing Las Vegas 48

Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

Mitch Woolhiser saw a magnificent and unusual business opportunity in the budding marijuana industry in 2010. To be successful as a dispensary owner, you must understand not only the existing laws around marijuana cultivation and sales, but also the proposed laws and changes that will go into effect in coming years.

San Diego 60

San Diego Colorado California Business Plan 60

Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

I will focus on sales and marketing elements: how well you communicate your message, the basics of your design, usability, calls to action, SEO, etc… Think of this as a combination between UserTesting.com and ConceptFeedback.com …except I’m not charging 29 bucks.

Software Review 45

Software Review Non-Compete RSS Software Developers 45

Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Likewise, if you see the massive amount of traffic coming from SEO you have to know how many of those people are buying your product. But the number of conversions stayed about the same as it had been the week before, meaning the conversion rate (the number of sales per visitor) plummeted. Is this bad? 2 Rob on 01.12.10

Software Review 55

Software Review Marketing Startup PPC 55

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

We came together in 2010. We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development. Everything from strategy design, SEO, and whatnot. Brian Clark: Right.

Community 40

Community SEO Technical Review Audience 40

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So that was 2010. Video, email, audio, even sales copy that is meant to sell. So really, it’s like old-school SEO, although we never use those letters ever. Old-school SEO with really genuine, high quality content that’s created with subject matter expert interviews, but everything is around growth.

Audio 57

Audio Boston Video HTML 57

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It really got our stride in 2010 and had some great clients and big clients. And using SEO and using just simple things like having better titles. ” We’re looking at each other trying to get the next sale. Jack McGuinness: Our sales, our pipeline is much smoother or robust, I guess you would call it.

Leadership 73

Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 73

Software By Rob

APRIL 1, 2010

Reviewing SimplyBill.com April 1st, 2010 | Website Reviews Building your startup? Definately some great tips in there for SEO, and glad to know I’m not too far off the mark. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software Review RSS Startup Software Developers 37

ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

One that does not produce a lot of search results when Googled (so you won’t have to expend lots of SEO resources for your own name to show up when someone searches for it directly). So does Afternic Sales Performance. Short (helps for memorability and easiness-to-guess). 2) Name types.

Naming 45

Naming Startup Technical Review Cofounder 45

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 23, 2011

It finally dawned on me a few weeks later that my daily feelings were fluctuating with our sales numbers. For example, I DID NOT want to deal with our tax situation for 2010 (it was complicated cause the company was just me and then we incorporated). For me, most of the time it stems from seeing our daily sales numbers.

Argentina 316

Argentina Email Web SEO 316

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

Social Media 69

Social Media SEO Programming Engineer 69

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Is SEO important? million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO. 500ms increased response time means 20% less traffic for Google , 100ms increased response time decreases Amazon sales by 1% The impact is quite real. What do they do?

Fractional CTO 150

Fractional CTO API Startup SEO 150

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Identified a communication gap between customers and the sales and marketing teams as a primary pain point. The timing was not inconsequential.

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 93

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 93

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

That means, for every new entrepreneur you refer to the 1M/1M program, we'll share with you $100, if the sale occurs at any time within 12 months. That customer is typically searching on Google, and Michael needs to orchestrate his SEO, blogging, and guerrilla p.r. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

Affiliate 130

Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 84

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

On the surface it’s a stock market like game where individuals and companies offer shares of stock for sale and that stock value is measured based on demand, actions taken on Empire Avenue and the collective participation and engagement in social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. First off, what is it.

Social Media 57

Social Media Stock Media RSS 57