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16 PR Strategies Every Small Business Should Stop Using Right Now

Up and Running

PR can do wonders for your startup or small business, but not all strategies have proven to be effective. Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. Over-the-Top Self-Promotion. Press Release Avalanches.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. How many through SEM?

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. Lesson 1: Correlations don't imply causality.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Designing and producing marketing and PR materials (copyright, trademark).

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other. Notably I said: You have to have owned & operated websites (O&O) to drive traffic to. You should be able to convert at least 5-15% of your audience.

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5 Ways to Tackle the Tricky Business of Measuring Branding and Marketing ROI

crowdSPRING Blog

Data segmentation, in particular, can help you do things like measure cost per lead relative to customer lifetime value by channel. Contextualize all available data relative to aggregate spend. Were there PR problems that popped up and might have stymied the performance of the marketing efforts?

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Tips for Success via Business Crowdfunding

Hearpreneur

We believe that traditional media buying – display and banner ads, PR, social media, search keywords, etc. – Do you really understand how to market your opportunity and speak to an audience via the necessary channels? are all necessary components of a complete marketing strategy.