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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. SEO is seldom “free.”.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&#

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Labels: internet , Portfolio. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. 8 comments: David Dalka said.

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Who can build the marketing machine?

This is going to be BIG.

Fab.com (First Round portfolio company) just announced a new round of funding and that they reached 350,000 subscribers. People have gotten so specialized, that we have people doing nothing but community management, SEO/SEM, PR, etc.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Each account manager should have a portfolio of existing customers, and you should model the expected CMRR from this group net of up-sells and churn. Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1).