Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum.

Viral 238

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum.

Viral 225

Viral Marketing SEM Startup 225

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. Critical roles include a director, community manager, blog editor, blogger(s), channel specialists, SEO specialists, photographers/videographers, producers, and analytics specialist.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Social Media SEM SCRUM 159

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum.

Viral 141

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 141

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic – not always results.

Development Team Review 323

Development Team Review SEM Channel Social Media 323

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). The corollary is that it is very hard to recover from a crappy marketing campaign that over-hyped. I haven’t heard them pounding their chest and running big marketing campaigns.

Early Stage 380

Early Stage Stealth Marketing Startup 380

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. This post has been removed by a blog administrator.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. PR and non programmatic marketing often have a lagging affect so if you ran a big out-of-home marketing campaign that created brand awareness you may find that conversion actually takes place 60–90 days later.

Metrics 150

Metrics Cost Acquisition Startup 150

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Where you can (this is not difficult to do when you use content management systems – such as a WordPress blog), use natural sounding names for your URLs and titles. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Personality!

Web 127

Web Design Flash SEM 127

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Most campaigns can be optimized to increase conversion rates and lower costs. Intercom allows you to build drip email campaigns based on specific actions users take on your site.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Popular keywords have higher costs.

Search 225

Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Where you can (this is not difficult to do when you use content management systems – such as a WordPress blog), use natural sounding names for your URLs and titles. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

Small Business 123

Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Where you can (this is not difficult to do when you use content management systems – such as a WordPress blog), use natural sounding names for your URLs and titles. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. Forty-two percent of marketers cite lack of quality data as their biggest obstacle when implementing successful lead generation campaigns.

Small Business 73

Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? They would perform a time period comparison, looking back 6-12 months ago when you started the campaign and comparing with the conversion rate you have now (linear analysis). Same question: how can you justify your contribution?

PPC 48

PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tip: Do your best to keep conversions tied to the same outcome for the various SEO campaigns you’ll undertake. First, it created useless data because we could not compare conversion rates later in our campaigns to the earlier data. There are many excellent online tools that will help you with SEO campaigns.

SEO 48

SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing). For practical tips, you can also read Ten Practical Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Tips and 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. What have you seen in your own paid search campaigns? New SEO Starter Guide From Google.

Search 100

Search SEM PPC Engineer 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click.

SEM 164

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Image source.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

It was during this time that I actually started this blog (when it was all about Marketing). Some of the campaigns I worked on were traditional banners campaigns while others were more sophisticated sponsorships of the apps and programs of the day such as instant messaging clients, rollovers, and takeovers on sites.

SEM 83

SEM Advertising Metrics Analytics 83

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? Descriptive names, such as Stuff White People Like or Blogging Basics 101 , immediately convey information about what you do. How Do I Start? The downside?

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). If you sent multiple Tweets you’d want to know which time of day was more effective.

Technical Review 307

Technical Review Marketing SEM Campaign 307

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Other PPC experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI).

Search 226

Search PPC Widget SEO 226

Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

International SEM and SEO have become more important in the last few years – what areas should people focus on? With both SEO and SEM, you need to research the market before you enter. to create effective campaigns. International SEO and SEM are not just for Multinational Corporations, but also for mid-small businesses.

Chicago 60

Chicago Search SEM Asia 60

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign. Present and explain your marketing campaign.

Wiki 315

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 315

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. Blogging Experience Articles. + Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns.

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. For example for this blog, which is a static site, here is a random url: [link]. Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). 7: Redirects, be aware of them.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Analytics Web Software Review 93

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Blogs and Newsletters. Need original content for your blogs or newsletters? SEO/SEM Content. Need to generate great search engine optimization (SEO) content or develop strong search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns? Leverage our community to help you develop a great tagline for your business. Advertising/Marketing.

Non-disclosure Agreement 93

Non-disclosure Agreement SEM Non-Compete Community 93

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and short-term campaigns; Automation for scale; Targeting; Blending optimization with attribution. Ignore blog posts that tell you “99 Things You Can A/B Test Right Now.” A lot of blog posts tout magic numbers like “100 conversions” or “1,000 visitors” as stopping points.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Mailchimp , Constant Contact , JangoMail and the like make it easy to create and manage email campaigns and special Thank You’s can be sent using any of these or other services. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*.

Small Business 85

Small Business Startup Campaign SEM 85

A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here’s how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

Customer 60

Customer PPC Campaign SEM 60

A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here's how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

Customer 60

Customer PPC Campaign SEM 60

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

That's my plan for this blog post. Pageviews gives me a great proxy for knowing how often they might have seen it (not surprisingly more than once for my looooooong blog posts!). Or even if my acquisition campaign (Paid, Earned or Free) did not result in conversion in this visit, maybe they'll come back later.

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2016

The Goals of Our Reactivation Campaign. How to Run a Reactivation Campaign. Before even thinking about the exact campaign plan, I wanted to look at what the research says. I guess that’s why I’m writing this blog post.) Return Path has done a very nice overview of the 7 Email Reactivation Campaign Insights.

Email 48

Email Campaign Metrics SEM 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and Short-Term Campaigns. Don’t listen to any blog posts that tell you “99 Things You Can A/B Test Right Now.” You’ll read a lot of blog posts that have magic numbers like “100 conversions” or “1,000 visitors” as their stopping points. Automation for Scale. How do we do that?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Analytics Framework Software Review 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Do you manage your own keyword campaigns or work closely with the person who does? SpyFu is a great tool that allows you to compare your own SEO/SEM tactics against those of your competitors. This will be the last list of this kind from me for 2014, so enjoy these five great online resources!

Small Business 79

Small Business SEM Social Media Mobile 79

Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

You are participating in a keynote roundtable this year at the SES 2008 show in San Jose about attributing sales to Search – How much credit does an SEM program deserve in an overall marketing mix? How do you determine the success of a Search campaign? What is your blog or a place where people can get in contact with you?

San Jose 60

San Jose SEM Campaign SEO 60