crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Thinking of ways to market your small business can be overwhelming, especially when you consider the cost and return on investment. Here’s the secret that smart marketers hold close to their heart: marketing your small business doesn’t have to cost a fortune. It can be very effective (and low-cost) if done well.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Is It Sticky?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. Wide Adoption.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Use An Effective LOCAL Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Strategy An effective search engine optimization strategy will get your website on a top position in the search results pages of all the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Four such strategies are detailed below.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Use An Effective LOCAL Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Strategy An effective search engine optimization strategy will get your website on a top position in the search results pages of all the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Four such strategies are detailed below.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Every additional sales channel costs resources and increases scope. The choice of semiconductor has profound implications on system requirements like how much memory is needed, how much power is required—and ultimately, the end system cost. It’s lazy thinking (and expensive engineering) to try to build for both at the same time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 25, 2016

Unconventional PR. Search Engine Marketing. Search Engine Optimization. Viral Marketing. Engineering as Marketing (e.g. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Once you know your CLV, you can set your maximum Customer Acquisition Cost (i.e. Existing platform > Viral marketing > Community building.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

As I already mentioned, the cost of playing at Vegas is much higher. You have your room fee, your plane ticket, the cost of eating out while there, etc. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

What is my cost of capital and how much is worth an incremental upfront payment? If you assume that the cost to renew a contract costs you 20% of the MRR, then adding increasing the commission by 10% for each additional year seems reasonable. Accelerating bonuses for upfront cash payment depends on your cost of capital.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

The development of this market has been accelerated by two trends: (1) the need for large and mid size companies to turn their workforce into a competitive asset by optimizing and measuring its performance and (2) the emergence of Software as a Service that reduces significantly cost and deployment time. Become.com crawls over 3.2

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Being active on social media sites will not only increase brand awareness, it’ll also boost your company’s rank on search engines, and prove that you’re a business that is in sync with the times. Self-printed cost is $0.46 They are the first thing people see on search engines. Share Your Expertise Freely.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. For example, PR doesn’t scale. The topic of scaling startups is one that I enjoy thinking, living and writing about (most recently, Scaling the Chasm ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. Now, people begin defining growth hacking as a process, a systematic approach, a “viral loop”, etc. Ads drive awareness…to drive sales. …Really?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. Estimating Realistic Startup Costs. Do your own PR. Whether or not you’ve got the budget, doing your own PR to start with is a good idea. 35 Great Ways to Fund a Small Business. Angel Investment Guide.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

It’s not because they didn’t publish enough number of articles on their blog , didn’t take PR seriously or something like that. Or worse still, expecting every single piece to be viral. Thinking blogs can be optimized as and when required is a common mistake that one must avoid at all costs – sadly that is not the case.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. The definition becomes for the last quarter of 2007: CAC Ratio = (GM (Q4 07) - GM (Q307)) x 4 / S&M costs (Q307) A CAC ratio of one would be equivalent to breakeven marginally on a new customer in one year. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ultimately, finding a low-cost, repeatable way to show customers how to be successful with your solution is as important as the solution itself. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Michael Kassing. Let me just say "Thanks". You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While there are a huge number of intricacies with search engine optimisation, the basics are to find the right key phrases to target, to include those terms on the page naturally and within the page title and, of absolutely massive importance, to get other sites to link to you. For everyone that helped – thanks very much!

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

4) Sales model: From seasoned sales people to a tiered sales engine To buy, people needs to be comfortable with the product. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or. Basic sales principle. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Zero squared economic value or cost savings to the business. 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).

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