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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. How do people drive SEO growth?

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Fad, Shmad. New Domain Extensions Like.FAMILY Are Here To Stay.

YoungUpstarts

You don’t have to create a whole new website, you can simply forward viewers who visit your new domain to content on your existing.COM and get zero SEO penalty for doing so (see number 3 below)! Complementary domains” simply means differentiating the url through the top-level domain (TLD), while keeping the domain name itself static.

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. They literally can’t respond to our core differentiator. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. Market Structure.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons – SEO, branding, GTM strategy , etc. To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how the competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client.

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

To truly differentiate your brand, center your growth strategy around creating unique and personalized customer experiences. SEO , SEM, paid advertising , content marketing, social media, email marketing, strategic partnerships with other brands, PR; Activation. Your customers want different things.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Similarly, it probably makes sense for everyone to take advantage of SEO (hey, its nearly-free traffic). But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.