Remove Direct Marketing Remove Entrepreneur Remove Metrics Remove Viral
article thumbnail

Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Define relevant metrics and measure. My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn.

article thumbnail

Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. Unbounce online marketing blog.

API 167
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

7 Steps To A Memorable New Venture Marketing Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics. Pick a theme and a team for each and get started.

Marketing 240
article thumbnail

How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Define relevant metrics and measure. entrepreneur get started small business social media' Or are you too busy?

article thumbnail

Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

article thumbnail

Pull Investors to Your Business Plan With a Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). That’s your metric to see if you have their attention. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Executive team. Marty Zwilling.

article thumbnail

Too Busy for Social Media Marketing Could Be Fatal

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Define relevant metrics and measure. My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn.