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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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). Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. Cost per action (CPA).

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Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews

searchengineland.com

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. which takes away from productivity, not to mention actually enjoying your job. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. SearchCap Daily Newsletter. All Columns. All Things SEO.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. Cost per action (CPA). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people.

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Lack Management Support or Buy-in? Embarrass Them!

Occam's Razor

Use your customers and competitors to help you move the ball forward (buy a new tool, hire another analyst, kill hideous home pages, spend right amounts on SEM and SEO, publish rich media on your site, implement feedburner , or whatever else you want). When I say embarrass your senior management that's what I mean.