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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Pay per click (PPC). Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already.

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) can be split into two search strategies: Pay-Per-Click (PPC) refers to how your company bids on keywords that represent the intent of what the customer is looking for, leveraging marketing spend to gain visibility by securing placement at the highest ranks within the search engines. Social Marketing.

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5 of the most famous (and effective) growth hacks of all time

The Next Web

Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. Back when Facebook was still just for schools, some schools already had their own social networks. Instead of trying to market directly to students at those schools (“but we already have a social network!”) So what do startups do?

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113 of the Best Lead Generation Tools and Resources

Duct Tape Marketing

Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. Online Advertising– This includes the use of pay-per-click platforms, social networks, display ads and retargeting. WordStream – Service that manages PPC campaigns, but great info too.

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13 Unconventional Landing Page Strategies To Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

Coming From (Social Network). It’s common knowledge within PPC advertising circles that pointing your ad directly to your homepage is a no-no. Somehow that same rule never caught on to social networks. But really, isn’t social media a dynamic ad for your business?

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Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce.

Software By Rob

A better approach would be to create a few videos (about your site’s mission, a separate video telling each vendor’s story, etc…) and post them to YouTube, Facebook, and other viral video sites. Also, go with the social network route and start a Facebook group to get people involved. at 7:31 pm [.]

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SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups

sharkseo.com

Knowem provides a really useful service that lets you easily check a large chunk of the popular social network sites to see if your brand name is available to register. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally. Plan a bit of post-launch viral content.