Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Schools need the same analysis to provide more effective teaching media and techniques.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Schools need the same analysis to provide more effective teaching media and techniques.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Schools need the same analysis to provide more effective teaching media and techniques.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success. What’s the problem?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. Social media is high on the radar for CRM and loyalty specialists. There is a strong sense that CRM and social media could go together very well. Very few of us had friends on social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Even within the digital marketing arena, there are a thousand alternatives, vying for your limited budget. 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?

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Google bought web 2.0 Google integrated Admeld with its additional DoubleClick and Invite Media acquisitions. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. Google bought web 2.0 Google integrated Admeld with its additional DoubleClick and Invite Media acquisitions.

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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Brand advertising starts to move online, boosting premium display, video and social media. Many brand advertisers are spending their experimental budgets widely in social media as they attempt to figure out how to promote themselves through Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other platforms. Real time web usage outpaces business models.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. This explains more: [link] Whether something has a cost doesn't change how our systems work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Encourage ongoing social media customer conversations.

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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. Get Share-Happy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. As a pay-per-click marketer, now I will look at retail packaging as a source of ideas on landing page design. Worry about the sales results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Social media is a huge resource for entrepreneurs. Sadly, too many entrepreneurs still think social media is only for play, rather than work. They don’t yet realize the low-cost potential for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, direct marketing and e-commerce. A different message everywhere is no message.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. If a brand had your email address and permission from you to send occasional messages to you then you could effectively market new products or services. The currency of the real-time web is, for now, your Twitter address.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. Enter ShoeDazzle. I think of it as Columbia House meets Zara.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Create multiple versions of a web page (such as home page, product page, landing page etc) or even a part of a web page (such as headline wording, call to action button size, email capture box location etc) and see which version converts better – which version gets more people to do what you want them to do. CityCliq: 88.9%

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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. Activate word of mouth with PR, social media, and content placement. Use direct marketing and promotions to encourage purchase.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

You have to make it incredibly easy for people to remember you and find you on the world wide web, and that means being one click away when interacting with your audience. Currently, one in every ten online purchases around the world originates from social media channels. It sounds so simple, yet it’s often an overlooked step.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2011

We all know how important it is for businesses to track social conversations online; recently, we’ve seen a flood of web monitoring tools just for this purpose. Import customer profiles and contact information to segment direct marketing efforts. Market to these contacts directly based on available public information.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

That makes it an essential driver of your web marketing strategy and the management of your website. of all web traffic is via mobile phones. Why Google Analytics is critical for business. Google Analytics collects vast amounts of information about users’ behavior across the Internet. Acquisition. Device targeting.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

There are LOTS of examples out on the web of each of these you can find if you just do some Google searched and click on the Paid Adwords ads and see the landing pages there. “As Testimonials- these are the tried and true workhorses of the direct marketing and copywriting world. Here are two interesting posts I found on the web.

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Up and Running

JUNE 20, 2011

One of the best ways to bolster any business plan is to dedicate a sizeable portion of the marketing section to describing how the company will thrive through the application of the most effective strategy, the one which provides the highest Return on Investment of all: email marketing. Social Media Symbiosis.

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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. Why Every Small Business Needs Great Content is a post from: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Build a web presence. Few business owners understand marketing. Yet they still need to create a marketing plan, develop strategies, and execute. Few business owners know how to engage the media. Experienced media consultants can shine a brighter light and help companies break out from the crowd. Choose your niche.

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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 get over the frustration of having done attribution modeling and realizing that it is not even remotely the solution to your challenge of using multiple media channels? We have to do Email Marketing. ask for a raise.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

By using social media to spread the word, this free site currently lists over 10,000 service providers, ranging from hairdressers to personal trainers to piano teachers. My first question was what categories is he focusing on as his market entry points. Taha needs to grow both bases, but subscribers a bit ahead of vendors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so I think just because Google is devouring more of these click-throughs it doesn’t mean you’re not going to get visitors from these other channels and especially from your own direct marketing whether that’s direct mail or email or those kinds of things. David: Yeah for sure.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Additional Colorado Representatives · TruEffect merges the interactivity and reach of the Web, with the precision and effectiveness of direct marketing to deliver increased media performance and unparalleled new insights to global advertisers. TopSchool, Inc.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 10, 2011

As LinkedIn , Zynga , Groupon and other Web 2.0 This naturally leads people to speculate on the still private financials of other Web 2.0 For the most sophisticated brand marketers, this is accomplished through Marketing Mix Modeling where they can directionally attribute a dollar spent to the short-term return in sales.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

TruEffect merges the interactivity and reach of the Web, with the precision and effectiveness of direct marketing to deliver increased media performance and unparalleled new insights to global advertisers. Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children. TopSchool, Inc.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. To get into the property market you have to get loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Audience: What about from a social media point of view? He really loves small business.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. Pledge to shift away from a one-size-fits-all data puke, and use your web analytics tool to create a customized dashboard. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features. Ravaging data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2012

Some years ago smart marketers latched onto the idea of something they referred to as integrated marketing. The idea behind this concept was to make all aspects of marketing such as advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing work together as a single force, rather than allowing each to work as a stand alone.

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