A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Except the "strategy" is a tirade of drivel I've heard so many times I can lip-sync as the words spew out the founder's mouth: "We're going to A/B-test AdWords campaigns until we discover our hook.". We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.".

Software Review 261

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2018

Leveraging various online marketing strategies is critical to an overall successful campaign. There’s organic traffic (non-paid) and paid traffic (buying advertisements online). SEO (Search Engine Optimization) uses keywords or long phrases to get ranked in organic search on engines like Google. Affiliate Marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2020

For example, your digital marketing campaign is for different businesses. For your marketing campaign, you can also consider hiring expert feedback. Email marketing is the most cost-effective way to advertise your business. Avoid Failure With Paid Promotions and Paid Advertising. These are just some of the strategies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

Many people have difficulty creating a successful online business, whether it is selling their own product or affiliate marketing, or because they have poor writing skills. With all the talk of social media campaigns and SEO, it is easy to forget that advertising is still the most valuable tool in the digital marketing tool chest.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2023

Add to this email marketing, SEO, content marketing, PPC advertising, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing - and you're facing a veritable buffet of choices. This could be SEO optimization, targeted email campaigns, strategic partnerships, or another high-impact initiative.

Small Business 61

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

All businesses need to engage in continuous promotional campaigns to raise brand awareness and cement their place in the market. PPC Campaigns. PPC advertising remains a great way to promote your business, particularly if you want to make the most of a restricted marketing budget. Search Engine Optimization. Social Media.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. You start with two affiliates: Kim and Jim.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2023

Add to this email marketing, SEO, content marketing, PPC advertising, influencer marketing, affiliate marketing - and you're facing a veritable buffet of choices. This could be SEO optimization, targeted email campaigns, strategic partnerships, or another high-impact initiative.

PPC 45

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2016

Use the marketing campaigns of more established online presences. Setting up a good network of affiliates has all kind of benefits. Secondly, sharing tips and information can make your campaign stronger than you might be able to make it alone. Some are concerned that the potency of email campaigns isn’t what it used to be.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Most campaigns can be optimized to increase conversion rates and lower costs. Display ads (cheap).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When you neglect your website, you not only run the risk of driving away potential customers who might think your business is no longer open or poorly operated, but you also hurt your SEO , which means you’ll drive less traffic from search engines over time. Make sure your website is mobile-friendly. Handle any redirect issues.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Guerrilla marketing is a little risky, but the risk should be in the success or failure of the campaign and not in running afoul of the law. Create a referral/affiliate program. Tap directly into that by creating a referral or affiliate program that rewards customers for sharing your business. Networking. Speed up your web site.

Small Business 48

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Guerrilla marketing is a little risky, but the risk should be in the success or failure of the campaign and not in running afoul of the law. Create a referral/affiliate program. Tap directly into that by creating a referral or affiliate program that rewards customers for sharing your business. Networking. Speed up your web site.

Small Business 48

Small Business Marketing Technical Review Audience 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. Not your api driven integrated massively multi channel attribution analyzed campaign lifetime databases. Sign up for your websites campaigns using your personal email address. Especially at the really simple and basic things. See how the emails look.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? Great stuff!

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

We will cover measuring success of SEO efforts on one web page, how to do search engine optimization for b2b websites, how to rank for highly saturated industries / categories / keywords, and which competitive intelligence tools do I use for search program optimization (and targeting display ads using search data!). Back to our story.

Analytics 90

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We have to have a robust Affiliate network. We have to do location-based advertising to squarefour people. We can't forget Mobile advertising. Smart Marketers work hard to ensure that their digital marketing and advertising efforts are focused on the most impactful portfolio of channels. We have to do Paid Search.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Truly reflect on whether our marketing and advertising initiatives are broad enough and optimized enough for each customer consideration stage, and finally. And that comes before you think about marketing/sales/advertising/billboards/tv. For example: When we buy display advertising, who are we solving for? You want sales, yes.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

We want to share it with you so that you can advertise without any interruptions. It also defines the different ways of advertising for “approaching” the consumer. . Consumers are quite tired of this form of advertising and usually shy away from it because it is annoying. It is not outright advertising.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more.

Analytics 60

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key. Alexander Velinov.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Marketing strategies continue to evolve, and with the dominance of social media, the rise of the influencer-marketing campaign is more prevalent than ever. An influencer can do a lot of things, but the nature of their profession is similar to a native advertising editor.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I began placing advertisements on the website. Would you be interested in advertising on my website?” and I got a handful of advertisers who said yes. I still made money from advertising that went on the website. I would contact retailers of this card game and say, “I’ve got an audience of Magic players.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Some of the most common questions I receive revolve around how I get advertisers to my blog, how I make money with advertising on my blog, and anything related to money and advertising. While I didn’t for the most part it doesn’t mean I wasn’t like every other new blogger out there: I experimented with advertising.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with nor do I know anyone at Credit Karma.]. Affiliate links (Take Offer, Compare Rates) that link to other sites from which Credit Karma makes commissions. Advertising on the site is a Micro Conversion (the SavvyMoney ad above with the link Manage Your Debt). No credit cards required to sign up!

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Beyond your site itself, make sure you understand the SEO, or search engine optimization basics, so you’re setting yourself up to be discoverable in Google search. From there, look at your paid ad campaign strategy. These days, you’ll notice that practically every page of search results is swimming in paid advertisements.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

This tells you that vendors are not spending money to highlight products and services in this niche, at least from an advertising perspective. You are looking for products, services and advertisements that fit your contemplated niche or website topic. But how many sponsored ads do you see on the top or right hand side of the screen?

HTML 108

HTML Social Bookmarking Affiliate Engineer 108

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. SEO for Beginners. SEM for Beginners.

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SEM SEO PPC Marketing 113

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I learned some of this strategy from Brendon Burchard and Chalene Johnson, but expanded on it to tie in influencers as ambassadors and affiliates. We offer multiple options for profit sharing with bonuses and affiliate structure! I found most either provided product or cash for posts—they were basically paid advertising.

Social Media 91

Social Media Affiliate Cuba Advertising 91

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

But I found the conversion rate for beach towel related search terms to be fairly low, the competition for the terms on Adwords was fairly high, and with beach towel margins being what they are, the Adwords campaign about broke even, which made it more of a hassle than it was worth. No affiliation to either #19 maxwell on 02.27.09

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

It keeps us on task when creating ad campaigns, posting to social media, and promoting programs and services. is powered by Blue 16 Media , and we provide digital marketing solutions (web design & SEO) for businesses and organizations. Thanks to Sherry Gavanditti, Menorah Park ! #11 11 – Don’t Quit. “Never give up!

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Content created by users and exhibitors for a specific event is an excellent source of SEO. C onferences are big business. VC Cafe: How do you capture the value here?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They know there are affiliate links. When people share your content with like-minded groups on social media, it helps build affiliation and keeps you top-of-mind. Use this to build your sub-brand framework that every digital marketing campaign must follow. They know there’s pay-to-play stuff. Maintain posting cadence.

Social Media 145

Social Media Audience Media Marketing 145

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Display Advertising Opportunity Analysis. The two exceptions are… I tend to dip in and out of my Raven subscription (primarily because I tend to dip in and out of SEO analysis needs). Identify the impact on your display advertising campaigns. We need to shift our strategy to more dramatic focus on SEO.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

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