Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a couple of years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Social media marketing. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it.

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Internet SEM Wiki Viral 239

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. This is a variation on Internet radio, named from iPods and broadcasting. Viral marketing. Streaming video.

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Internet SEM Wiki Entrepreneur 224

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise. It’s about looking out for and catching the next major marketing wave before others have grokked it. I laughed as I did at much of his rant.

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Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites.

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

They have a strong ability to market themselves, which allows these young entrepreneurs to get more clients and grow their business. Those who are starting off their new ventures are able to succeed not necessarily because they have full passion and ambition, but because they are into digital marketing. Email marketing.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Social Media SEM 286

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Every time I see a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a couple of years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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Viral Cost Marketing SEM 141

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Marketing covers a wide range of activities. From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. There are many ways to market with a small budget.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. An example is seen below: Courtesy of DragonSearch Marketing.

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Technical Review Social Media SEM SCRUM 159

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Hence, businesses must employ creative and unique marketing techniques for attracting the right audience in the online or digital space. As per the Huffingtonpost.ca , several businesses are constantly employing digital marketing stratagems for attracting new online leads, visitors, and customers.

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SEM Marketing Campaign SEO 138

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design.

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Web Design Flash SEM 127

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 257

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Marketing Viral SEM Startup 265

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. And it’s not just a CRO problem – it is a marketing-wide phenomenon.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Some secret growth hack or silver bullet that skyrocketed them to household names. The truth is, they simply had a solid growth marketing process. Yet, marketing teams continue to make decisions based on what has worked in the past, what has worked for other people and what appears to be working for competitors.

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Marketing Distribution Retention eCommerce 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. And it’s not just a CRO problem—it’s a marketing-wide phenomenon. Competitor X is doing Y.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

Marketing 235

Marketing SEM Startup Viral 235

Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

Marketing 146

Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 146

Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

Whenever I have an idea for a new service to offer or need suggestions for unique ways to market my online courses, I do crowdsourcing or I reach out directly to people in my business and Facebook blogger groups who I know can give me great suggestions. Instead I go to marketing, sales and leadership meetups and masterminds.

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Networking Entrepreneur Social Media Channel 143

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Search Marketing Toolbox. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. What is Social Media Marketing. How To: Social Media Marketing. Social Media Marketing Library. Our Social Media Marketing Events.

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SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. This increased attention from online freelance marketplaces to the Russian market may be connected to recent changes in PayPal’s status in the country. million jobs. million jobs.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the first few pages of any search results. You need to name every page of your web site, and these names must contain your important search keywords. Image attributes and sub-folder names. Make sure you have no dead links on your own site.

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Search SEM SEO Engineer 233

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Paid search marketing is the paid use of search engines (such as Google or Bing) to promote your product or service. Paid search marketing is also sometimes called CPC (cost-per-click), or PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because most search engine advertising is sold on a CPC or PPC basis.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it. Yet when I saw our retail package, I was confused.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

After all, marketing is as much a science as it is an art. If you’re unable to find a URL that matches your small business name, you can consider changing the name or finding an alternative URL that includes the name – or or one that complements the name. Use a responsive design.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages.

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Technical Review Marketing SEM Campaign 307

Brandanew

JULY 28, 2015

Nobody used any marketing jargon to describe her new business but if we have a closer look we can see that it is nothing but personal branding. However, right from the moment you step in to college, to your first on-campus job placement, you are marketing and using your skills everywhere. She did not have to advertise or sell hard.

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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Marc Barros , the founder of Contour cameras wrote a great follow-up to my post on your company’s shift from a product focus to building out a sales and marketing organization that’s definitely worth reading. We weren’t sure if we wanted to lead the market, follow the market, just make the best products, be a niche brand, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. It strokes your ego. You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic.

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Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

A Crowded Space

APRIL 20, 2011

Do some market research: [link] , [link]. Name the business - [link]. Run your SEM campaigns: [link]. Optimize your SEM ad copy: [link]. Optimize your SEM ad copy: [link]. Get some legal advice: [link]. Design a logo - [link] , [link]. Design a site - same as above or [link]. Develop the technology - [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68