Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco 167

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Efficiency?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV). How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? What about appealing to a certain lifestyle category?

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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. Did those 30 new SEO pages cause the rise in conversion or was it just noise or something else? Word-of-Mouth.

PPC 48

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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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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is when metrics come into play. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. It’s no joke that your users are your best advertisers. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Our budget for most experiments is $500 to $1K, and we try to run two experiments per month. Successful and failed experiments.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. Step 7: Conduct one-on-one interviews.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. In this example, we know that new and used cars have distinct appeal due to differences in price, features, customer appeal, current advertising, etc, so they are separated to focus our targeting.

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PPC Matching Technical Review Search 114

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). Search marketing. We have your back.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). Search marketing. We have your back.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. There are two distinct forms of search engine marketing: organic (search engine optimization or SEO) and paid (pay-per-click or PPC).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. Step 7: Conduct One-on-One Interviews.

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

One of the biggest mistakes perpetuated by siloed execution of SEO and PPC strategies is that the groups that own each piece rarely learn from the other party's work. Never create a custom report without Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. Criminal behavior. You decide what the keyword is. So why don't more people do it?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

What it is: AdWords is Google’s advertising program. According to Google: AdWords enables you to create online advertisements and show them on Google and across a huge network of partner websites. If you want to learn more about search engine marketing, I suggest you read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM marketing tips.

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Small Business Analytics Social Media Search 102

marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

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