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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. This pretty much rules out SEO, PPC, affiliate marketing, etc. His customer acquisition strategy, however, needs a lot of work. Satish has about 20 customers, and 60 consultants around the world.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: When Keywords Are Competitive

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Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

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This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Photo by yirsh.

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