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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. And, finally, anybody who works in the space of SEO knows that the hottest thing going right now in user results are Q&A sites (see below). really understand it.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many adds came through organic SEO? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many through SEM?

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. Let me give you an example.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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This was the first in her string of web properties. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do. How’s that for an ex painter?

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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.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not.

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

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Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. Plus, maybe they’ve got some mega Facebook deal in the works? Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea. sites still dominate.