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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more. Sales and marketing costs.

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Top 10 Most Expensive Mistakes New Restaurant Owners Make

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The high cost of marketing, salaries, appliances, ambiance, and so on will dry up incoming revenue instantly. How to avoid making this mistake: When starting out, you must have a six-month cash reserve—even if you are feeling confident about your heroic entry into the food industry.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more. Sales and marketing costs.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

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Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more.

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12 Google Analytics Custom Reports to Help You Grow Faster

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SEO Custom Reports. That can inform your content, SEO and PPC strategies. Avinash Kaushik, author of Web Analytics 2.0 , explains the “Social Source Referral” filter… Avinash Kaushik , Web Analytics 2.0: “Do notice the clever use of the filter (Social Source Referral Exact Yes) above. Overhead costs.

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Be Part of the Entrepreneurial Revolution

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more. Sales and marketing costs.

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