Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. In SaaS (or any recurring revenue business) this is also a very difficult task. One big, beginners mistake people make in LTV is to measure revenue. I’m guessing much of this was 101 to many readers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Though search marketing, display advertising, social media, and mobile remain the mainstays of a digital advertising footprint, each has its role in supporting a particular business objective. When integrated properly, they maximize how we attract consumers, and turn visits into revenue. Raw Traffic. Current Customers.

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Channel PPC Marketing SEO 165

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 22, 2022

Search Engine Marketing (also known as SEM) is a type of marketing that involves the use of search engines to promote products or services. . SEM encompasses any effort that is designed to boost the brand’s visibility in search engine results. Marketing Using Social Media .

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Local Search. Mobile Search. Multinational Search. Paid Search. Search & Analytics. Search & Analytics. Search & Conversion. SEM Columns.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To find out who your top competitors are: Run a Google search; Check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete, or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in search results or get clicked, you’ve got work to do. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. Which results show up?

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

To find out who your top competitors are: Do a Google search, check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in the search results or doesn’t get clicked on – you know you’ve got work to do. Upsells and cross-sells (are there additional revenue opportunities you too could be leveraging?).

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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. billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year.

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

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. 20% of small businesses claim that search engine optimization is the most effective way to attract new customers. Marketing covers a wide range of activities.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. My latest video was on how to find meaningful insights, faster, when performing paid search analysis with web analytics tools (rather than, say, the AdWords or Bing UI). Criminal behavior. You decide what the keyword is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 257

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Marketing Viral SEM Startup 265

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. 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.

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San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Google’s revenue from adwords in 2009 was USD$23 billion. There are excellent alternatives, including search engine optimization (SEO). A few years ago , Google released a very useful search engine optimization starter guide (and later made that guide available in over 40 languages). image from Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. Growth marketing doesn’t prescribe quick-fix hacks that any company can apply to “10x their revenue.” For example, say you’re trying to improve top-line revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Marketing SEM Startup Viral 235

Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Get exposure for your expertise.

Marketing 146

Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 146

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing focuses on promotion through search engines (Google, Bing). Display Ads. Online marketing for Startups: back to basics – p+p+p+p.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

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. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

In early 2006 I heard from an in house recruiter at a company called Reprise Media that worked specifically in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) which was a nascent advertising space dedicated to delivering targeted advertising solely based on someones intent.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) to optimize this search.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 312

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. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

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Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” How do you determine the success of a Search campaign? ” panel.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We tend to be far too obsessed about Search Engines and Twitter and the Next Shiny Object. Organic and paid search, direct traffic , Twitter and Facebook, Facebook display ads, email marketing, top referring sites etc etc. 3: Paid Search Performance Analysis Micro-Ecosystem! The first tab is focused on the SEM team.

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Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” The most notable difference between PPC advertising and organic digital advertising efforts such as SEO (search engine optimization) or organic social media marketing is how the cost is determined. Creating your first search campaign.

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PPC Small Business Management Advertising 81

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search).

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search).

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The law of large numbers suggests it is easier to double in size when you are doing $1 million in revenue as compared to when you are doing $10 million, never mind $100 million. One of the themes I explore in the class is the tough reality that many metrics can actually get worse over time for a startup. Take growth rate as a simple one.

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Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition SEM 20

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking.

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SEM SEO PPC Marketing 113

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116