SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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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. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Identifying keywords like “pitch deck template” allowed us not only to find positive unit economics in SEM, but to focus our SEO efforts accordingly. If you’re able to get a hang of it, however, it can become a strong and close to free distribution channel for your product or service.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Extensive use of software to automate all processes such as SEO, SEM, social networking, lead scoring, lead nurturing, CRM, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Alex Blumberg’s started his company Gimlet media and while that was going on, they ran a podcast in parallel sharing the stories from the time they were setting up. I wrote about the Mystery Show earlier on SEM Rush as being supremely original and exciting. 3 Things To Learn From Startup Podcast.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

a live stream with an influencer on social media). Your next experiment might be to test new messaging , or media, to understand what has a greater impact on brand recognition. When running paid media experiments, start with a small budget, measuring results early and often. What are “pirate metrics?”. Image source.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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. We have run very successful campaigns by brands such as Sony, NBC, Microsoft, Universal, Clicker and others.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 20, 2014

Okay, that much is probably obvious but if we peel back the covers we could probably identify some interesting intersection points between the two retail models, starting with the distribution capability. Organic SEO is an art and for popular searches a vendor site will rarely display, and SEM is expensive for popular keywords.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one. It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing? And… what else?”). Guy Kawasaki.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. The distribution techniques are completely new. On the browser, SEO and SEM are paramount, but the equivalent tools on mobile are either non-existent or at best immature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. On the App Store, the same dynamic is in play. So what can you do?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you want to learn more about search engine marketing, I suggest you read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM marketing tips. What it is: Industry sources are reporting that Google will soon distribute millions of mobile devices to small businesses allowing customers to “check-in&# to those businesses and to rate the businesses.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. If printing and binding the documentation is important, is his the best tool? I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Like there's still a need for delivery agencies because a lot of companies, especially to me in like the paid world, like That should always be something that you outsource, like bringing in a media buyer, unless you are very good with creative and offers in house with which most companies are not, then you should always outsource that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Public Relations– This includes activities aimed at receiving coverage in traditional media outlets. PRNewswire – Press release distribution service. Tools: BuzzSumo – Search tool that tracks content on all social networking sites and ranks them based on the number of shares on various social media platforms.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you’re finding yourself working on a laundry list of repetitive tasks like social media scheduling, managing clients, or preparing marketing reports, it’s time to bring in help to allow you to focus on the big picture. Managing and engaging with social media accounts. Designing collateral and assets for social media.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., How are they organized and distributed? You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer. Explain at high level and day to day.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., How are they organized and distributed? You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer. Career background?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Outsourcing social media. Many small business owners are devoting a significant chunk of their capacity to social media marketing, albeit sometimes with limited results. Having said that, these may inform how you approach your business in the next 12 months; here ya go: 1.

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marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social Media |. Flexible images (and media). Media queries. Media queries, however, work quite well and provide a safe fallback. A desire for consistent function and rendering across those spectra means responsive email will likely focus on either a fluid layout or a media query. SMX Social Media Marketing - Dec.

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