A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. Search Engine Marketing and online ads on the other hand can be set up in minutes. I searched around and came up with a list of a couple dozen numbers. My mom recently started publishing online courses and my eighty-one year-old grandmother has an iPhone. Phone, Robert.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 13, 2011
Specifically, by making the flight-search problem pleasurable and useable instead of feeling like you’re navigating pivot tables from Excel ’98. They don’t have better data, better branding, better name, better SEO, or more money.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 10, 2010
At the same time, they also run television ads (with celebrities), are expert at SEO and AdWords, built a user-friendly web site, and do tech support for consumers. When a potential buyer made a search, they grabbed their email or phone number and said "Thanks, we're going to find you a great deal by Thursday." They'll never return.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 13, 2015
Not many search terms have that many impressions even over 3 years. But if not that, then SEO or blog posts or tweets or word of mouth and so on, so it’s still going to take 10s of millions of impressions. That’s a lot of impressions! Of course not all people will find out about the product from advertisement!
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 8, 2012
They’ll just Google it, and they’ll find apartmentratings.com, for example, which is really good at SEO, and is basically a way to find apartments, with ratings even, and it’s very popular. Your SEO is going to improve. Like, “We know that this will increase your SEO and you’ll get more traffic.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 4, 2015
Example: SEO, where the top three search results receive nearly all the traffic. Even then, the available inventory is limited, e.g. the top few slots in AdWords or SEO. Even getting 10 of the slots ranged 11-30 doesn’t add up to a fraction of what the winners get. Counter-Example: Social Media.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
In my opinion SEO is the same way. If you're doing SEO as one of ten tactics to get people to show up to your site, that's great. If you're betting the entire business on getting traffic through search results, at any moment a competitor or the platform itself could oust you. The other way is to diversify.
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