crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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Web Small Business Design SEM 48

The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. That’s where the Private Workplace comes in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." 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. One last thought.

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San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

We know that it is quite easy to commit digital marketing mistakes while employing intricate stratagems such as SEO, paid advertising, content marketing, etc. You can promote your site effectively by investing in SEM, SEO, generating top-quality content, and even on paid advertising on search engines.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

This is generally split into two areas, though they’re often used together to some varying proportion: Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth). Litmus blog.

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Entrepreneur SEM Lead Generation Social Network 267

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. But, according to Forbes, the small businesses that are happiest with their marketing performance hired outside agencies to handle it for them. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Product Entrepreneur SEM Lead Generation 223

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). 1x hacker in charge of product/development. Display ads (cheap).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to hire marketers. Search marketing. Ahrefs is valuable for getting an inside look at what your competitors are doing online.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to be hire marketers. Search marketing. Ahrefs is valuable for getting an inside look at what your competitors are doing online.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Blake Engel said. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

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. Consider every possible way to minimize this.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur SEM Lead Generation Social Network 120

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 93

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 93

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 84

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. So dont combine your product launch with a marketing launch. Instead, do your product launch first. Iterate as fast and for as long as you can.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

25% of a marketer’s capacity is a huge investment by any measure and outsourcing the effort starts to look attractive to many managers and many have hired outside consultants to help. Other companies are moving in this direction, and recommendation engines are becoming more and more common. Search is personalized.

Small Business 92

Small Business Securities and Exchange Commission Social Media Startup 92

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Tip#4: Make Your Analysis/Reports "Connectable" Tip#3: Turbocharge Your SEM/PPC Analysis. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Metrics & Analytics. Hiring a Senior Web Analyst? Leverage Custom Reports For Better Insights! Find Love (/Insights).

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Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app. Its like knowing the future.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. To understand when the business has started to climb the sales learning curve and is in a position to hire more reps profitably, you have to think in terms of CMRR instead of bookings.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Or we are insulted that they won't accept our recommendations, after all we are the experts here and that's why they hired us!! After that I got all the money I wanted, and had been begging for, to do SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Often no amount of our own credibility can drive change. That's what I mean.

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Management Analytics San Diego Web 68

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

Should you hire Consultants (and if so when and what to look for and expect)? If you have fifteen years of experience you'll still learn loads from chapters that cover holistic search analytics (internal, SEO, SEM/PPC) and Statistical Significance and Multi Channel Marketing Analytics and Advanced Conversion Rate measurement and more.

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Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60