A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Who’s lying?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Web traffic from Google Analytics but also another analytics system, or your raw web logs. (If If you use five web analytics tools, they’ll all give you different numbers; this could be due to differences in definitions of things like “visit” and “session,” but is that truly all it is?).

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Why your company should have a single email address

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Yet, when it comes to email management, most companies seems to adopt a somewhat broken posture: either they don’t advertise any public email or they advertise too many of them. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Are you still exposing a number of emails not equal to one?

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How do I know where to advertise?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Adventurous Advertiser writes: I’m ready to spend my first $1000 on something other than AdWords. “Besides that, you’ll lose credibility if you stop advertising. Fast learning means you get to a working advertising model faster. To get your question answered , email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com.

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What’s The Important Thing, that is powerful enough to override all your deficiencies?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine rankings, no efficient advertising, no incredible executive team, no NPS, no strategy. The web actually worked (even if slowly). You could use a knob on a web page to determine how scalable the site was. Email actually worked. In your pocket.

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"Authentic" is dead

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When 78% of "About Us" web pages claim "the leading provider" of something, we are no longer impressed. Tags: Essays How-To advertising design marketing persona writing. Like a song over-played on the radio, like a restaurant over-hyped in the magazines, repetition of even powerful, wonderful phrases can kill them.

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Smart Bear Live 4: Nick from PinfoB.com at AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Nick: So clients would be the advertisers. Jason: Advertisers. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Nick: So that’s both sides, so we have really kind of client sides, so we try to do everything we can to make our clients as happy as they can possibly be. Jason: Which client?

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Not disruptive, and proud of it

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. We took a simple problem (when server rooms get hot, the gear fails) and provided a simple solution (thermometer with a web page that emails/pages you if it's too hot).