VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Here are four free (or at least very cheap) places you can put your information. ○ Your email signature (with a link to your website and your phone #). ○ Your business cards. ○ Your social media profiles (see tip #3). ○ Your packaging (pro tip: stickers can be an affordable stop gap). We’ve got good news for you.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 19, 2021

Effective marketing is at the core of any online strategy. However, all too often, people think that effective marketing is simply knowing how to advertise. Direct marketing like that is useful, and it is one of the best ways to get a short-term surge of customers when you start a campaign. Get Social.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

John: So I guess I’ll start off with because you write so much about local digital marketing, local search stuff. John: And where does voice search go with that? What results are you getting from voice search? Great to be with you again and great to be with your audience again. David: Yup. David: Okay. David: Yep.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2012

In a “hyperconnected, ultra-competitive, and supercluttered marketplace”, doing more of the same big idea advertising on mostly mainstream media channels isn’t going to work anymore. Curate the idea by suring search engine optimisation. Activate word of mouth with PR, social media, and content placement.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a plethora of digital media channels at our disposal and new ones on the way every day(!), How do you figure out which channels to invest in more and which to kill? Oh, and the killer question… if you invest in multiple channels, how much incrementality does each channel bring to your bottom-line?

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2016

In order for this strategy to work, you need to buy a house below market value and you need to be able to accurately estimate the cost of repairs. A good place to find houses you can flip is on the foreclosure market. Sites like MLS have a dedicated section to search for such houses. Experience is everything.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2013

Here are a few tips to boost your content marketing: 1. Content marketing may require different tools and a different mindset than direct marketing, but that doesn’t mean the two can’t play together. Each of these channels present sharing opportunities as well, and by extension further repurposing. Use Hyperlinks.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Learning to do market research is that step you really can’t skip, because while it certainly helps if you know what you want to grow, you’re still going to need to know who is going to buy your products, where you’re going to sell them, and how you’re going to do this, all while taking competitors into consideration.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. For example, you’ve probably done searches in Google to find what websites rank well for the search terms you want to bring leads to your business. Audience: What about from a social media point of view? Improve conversions.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Update: If you would like to download the above mentioned dashboard into your Google Analytics account please click on this link: VP Social Media Performance Dashboard.]. And it is not all social media, it is just the money made from the company's own social media efforts by using the right campaign parameter. Pretty cool.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Per our friends at Wikipedia, Programmatic encompasses an array of technologies that automate the buying, placement and optimization of media inventory. While it made a ton of sense, no sane person would say that we could do anything close to that using the media platforms of the time. Programmatic advertising is all the rage.

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