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Marketing Your App This Holiday

YoungUpstarts

Would your budget be better spent in January when advertising costs have started to drop? Reach out to bloggers, forums and websites that specialize in promos and deals for advertising or co-marketing opportunities; the more early exposure you can get, the better. Maybe your best bet is to back off of holiday altogether.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

VC Cafe

to nearly 5% of the total retail market, with a forecasted continuous increase. For example, some companies may choose to outsource their SEM activities, some may decide that their R&D can be outsourced, while others may eventually outsource customer support. The growth of eCommerce as a percentage of total retail is no secret.

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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

ConversionXL

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? But as Investopedia says , data points are often non-stationary: “Non-stationary data, as a rule, are unpredictable and cannot be modeled or forecasted. Same question: how can you justify your contribution? Word-of-Mouth.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Cost per click (CPC).

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. It’s no joke that your users are your best advertisers. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). The faster your try and measure the effectiveness of a growth idea, the faster you’ll make it or break it and be able to move to the next one.

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