Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are only one of the many marketing campaigns which continue to rise in cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. That’s a double death wish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. That’s a double death wish.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. Critical roles include a director, community manager, blog editor, blogger(s), channel specialists, SEO specialists, photographers/videographers, producers, and analytics specialist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. That’s a double death wish.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. iPullRank Blog. Litmus blog. FOMO is real. Paid Acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. We finally settled on a $1.99

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Never “sell” or push out your message like conventional advertising. Identify your target customer and create customer profiles.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

3- Blog about home and gardening topics. I blog about home and gardening topics and make money from product recommendations to my audience, mostly through Amazon associates program. 7- DIY SEO blog. I launched my first online bootcamp in 2012 and then launched my DIY SEO blog called Get Found With Fuse.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. 28% of small businesses believe that word-of-mouth advertising is the most effective way to attract new customers. Marketing covers a wide range of activities.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? Whether because of seasonality, day of week, external factors, press, advertising, etc, data just fluctuates. Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Paid search marketing is also sometimes called CPC (cost-per-click), or PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because most search engine advertising is sold on a CPC or PPC basis. Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing). Historically, eBay has been one of the biggest Google paid search advertisers.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

It’s no joke that your users are your best advertisers. Nailing an article in a major tech blog is a hit or miss, but I’ve successfully managed to get two of our product launches featured in Techcrunch and TheNextWeb. Don’t underestimate small blogs! Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Display ads (cheap).

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? Descriptive names, such as Stuff White People Like or Blogging Basics 101 , immediately convey information about what you do. How Do I Start? The downside?

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

You can also get insights into your competitors’ strategies in display advertising, organic and paid search, and link building. Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process: Tony DeYoung: “I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM. With SEMrush you can find out what are your competitors’ best performing keywords.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

When I graduated from college I thought I wanted to work in advertising. I got a job at Mediacom as a Media Planner, which means planning advertising for clients in areas such as TV, out of home, radio, print, and other mediums. It was during this time that I actually started this blog (when it was all about Marketing).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

To learn more about SEO and PPC marketing, read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. Examples of inbound marketing include blogs, podcasts, ebooks, newsletters, whitepapers, and videos. People’s dissatisfaction with advertising helps to explain why inbound marketing is gaining popularity. Display Ads.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Advertising is all about getting the most results for the least cost.

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Brandanew

JULY 28, 2015

She did not have to advertise or sell hard. For instance, I know a lot of digital marketing experts who maintain their own blogs. They offer free tips to the readers about diverse topics such as SEO, Social Media and SEM using their expertise. She just enjoyed it and never thought of making a business of it.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

For your copywriting bootcamp, get all 3 of these books and study them regularly as you’re writing copy: Ogilvy On Advertising, Tested Advertising Methods and The Ultimate Sales Letter. Eventually, we would like to charge businesses to advertise their business in format like the top 3 on main page. Tagged with: convert [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

More often This logic can be extrapolated to the web world to mean: more users, visiting your site more often, for longer amounts of time to maximize advertising exposure. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Blogs and Newsletters. Need original content for your blogs or newsletters? Advertising/Marketing. SEO/SEM Content. Need to generate great search engine optimization (SEO) content or develop strong search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns? Leverage our community to help you develop a great tagline for your business.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At the acquisition stage, channels might include SEO, paid advertising, content marketing, etc. Having confirmed that paid advertising does impact the acquisition of new MQLs, a second experiment would be set up to determine what offer delivers the most new leads. Map out the customer journey: When to test. Image source.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

International SEM and SEO have become more important in the last few years – what areas should people focus on? With both SEO and SEM, you need to research the market before you enter. International SEO and SEM are not just for Multinational Corporations, but also for mid-small businesses. to create effective campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2014

And today’s SEO/SEM experts have their own ways of flattery and charm that work to bring in new customers. Advertisement: Fuller Brush Company. That flattering Fuller Brushsalesman from the 1950s knew exactly what he was doing when he gave that housewife a huge charming smile and told her what a pretty dress she was wearing.

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

Because pay-per-click advertising (PPC) needs to be an option you consider in order to reach your customers and stay competitive online. PPC stands for “pay-per-click advertising.” It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” And online engagement is only increasing with each passing year. PPC or SEO?

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VC Adventure

APRIL 8, 2010

In the case of Trada, staying quiet about the expert SEM marketplace they were building allowed the company the room to develop their platform in relative quiet and without tipping off any actual or potential competitor to what they were doing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 29, 2010

Start teaching the social media in your marketing curriculum, start leveraging the web in your strategy classes, and start training MBAs in the ins and outs of SEO and SEM.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 29, 2010

Start teaching the social media in your marketing curriculum, start leveraging the web in your strategy classes, and start training MBAs in the ins and outs of SEO and SEM.

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SEM Social Media Leadership SEO 76

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

For example, if your revenue model is driven by advertising on your site, one interim goal could be to drive a certain amount of additional traffic to your site. For example, most small businesses are not aware that you can target very inexpensive advertising to hyper-local recipients on Facebook (see number 2 in that link).

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

Here’s how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel. The thought process seemed reasonable - their content network is likely on a bunch of small blogs. But I think Google tends to be pretty hard on new advertisers.

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