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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. One Big Launch.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. How many adds came through organic SEO? Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. SEO is seldom “free.”. You Manage What you Measure.

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Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

Occam's Razor

The individual is ignoring varied influence across product portfolios, seasonality, diminishing returns, changes in the audience, and a million other things. You immediately total that up and proudly start a PR campaign stating that the experimentation program added $15 mil in revenue. Accommodate for this reality in your PR campaign.

Analytics 101
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Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.

Occam's Razor

1 Search Results Ranking = SEO Success. Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence). REDUCE MY CPC!

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Each account manager should have a portfolio of existing customers, and you should model the expected CMRR from this group net of up-sells and churn. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers. Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns

Occam's Razor

You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Very often when you run branding campaigns your goal is simply to introduce your business (like we are trying to do with Market Motive , our start up that provides certification courses in Web Analytics, SEO, PPC, PR etc etc).

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