crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

9 Step SEO Checkup Using Google Webmaster Tools – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. The History of Coca-Cola Print Advertising – [link]. Advertising: Clever Automobile Ads – [link]. 40+ Most Impressive Print Media Advertisements – [link]. Will Freemium Work for You?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire – crowdspring.co/1jrrtm7. 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers | DJDESIGNERLAB – crowdspring.co/1iDkMPO. Growth rates for Apple’s four major hardware product lines – pic.twitter.com/apLp6PsiHX.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Using this observation we can classify traffic sources into one of three groups: Zero Half-life - Any kind of advertising. Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). Advertising doesn’t build traffic “equity.&# It doesn’t sustain at all.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

I reviewed Tim's financial assumptions, and advised him to redo them with the assumption that the team would have to bootstrap the business locally, get enough validation, etc., This is the domain of PPC and SEO, and the market is very competitive, buying extremely expensive. before any investor would even consider investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

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 not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Suppose the goal of this particular company is to achieve $1m in annual revenue for a two-person bootstrapped startup, with a goal to be so efficient as to never have to hire employees, and therefore produce a terrific little business that nets each of them a few million dollars over the next ten years. That’s a lot of impressions!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K. Sales and marketing costs. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Unless you have some serious startup capital, chances are you’re going to want to bootstrap as much as you possibly can. On a related note about marketing, though, you should put together some sort of long-term goals in terms of content, advertising and social media. Figure Out Your Budget.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development. Brian Clark: Right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

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. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K. Sales and marketing costs.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers and vendors as customers. Subscribers opt-in to receive advertising specials based on their interests, like coupons, special offers, etc. He launched last week, and through Google and Facebook advertising he has acquired 1,800 subscribers so far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. IM Creator is a freemium service: you can design a website and host it for free, with zero advertisements. mo or $5.95/mo mo if booked one year in advance. mo or $5.95/mo

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). Paid advertising (Google Adwords, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on). Search engines (SEO)—link building and content development. TV advertising and radio advertising are also possible methods (though they fall outside the realm of internet marketing).

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.

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Spencer Fry

JUNE 29, 2011

At the end of the day, you have to build a service that people want to use or no amount of marketing or advertising will help. You can give away free paid accounts (see: Bootstrap Marketing ), offer limited edition virtual goods such as icons, and special early adopter features. Give Away Something People Want.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

Websites would rather deal with more face-to-face problems such as SEO, sales, advertising—all channels that could be directly monitored for returns. But I never had a solid strategy in place for SEO, content marketing, and sales. Gaglers chat hoped to fix something that the market didn’t believe to be broken. Why did it fail?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A lot of people are looking for SEO services. So for example, maybe I’ve written a blog post and it offers a free SEO checklist and that’s what I want people to do is download that piece of content. But you could also see if that guide or that checklist sends them to your SEO services page. John Jantsch: Okay.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. This is her core market.

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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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Spencer Fry

MAY 11, 2011

A quick Google search for "bootstrap marketing" brings up a bunch of useless nonsense. The results are either in the form of "Top 10 Bootstrap Marketing Tips" or "Bootstrap Marketing 101" guides. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is unquestionably a first step. Not to mention that all the ads are hurting my eyes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models | Moz – crowdspring.co/1f86l3x. SEO Penalty and Algorithm Recovery Timelines | ISOOSI Blog – crowdspring.co/1fxnCmW. Here’s the full PDF – crowdspring.co/1cNY3hP.

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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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Between the various things I’ve been doing and my own efforts I started noticing just how much time in this business goes into context work — all of the stuff besides the core of what your are building — and how hard it is, how much you have to sacrifice, especially if you are bootstrapping. may still have some residual value.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. As we considered other options, we ran into roadblocks: We didn’t have a big budget to snag Slack’s customers through paid advertising. SEO and organic acquisition became the logical choice. a team chat app for accounting companies). That’s a liability.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

“Real Time” in Display Advertising Doesn’t Really Mean Real Time - crowdspring.co/1hyAnvG. Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inks Profit-Sharing Deal with Razorfish | Advertising Age – crowdspring.co/1hmm2C4. Myths, Best Practices, SEO & Usability Tips – crowdspring.co/1kY1LHR. 1lNUUDJ - crowdspring.co/1lNUWLN.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. As we considered other options, we ran into roadblocks: We didn’t have a big budget to snag Slack’s customers through paid advertising. SEO and organic acquisition became the logical choice. a team chat app for accounting companies). That’s a liability.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This applies to bootstrapped companies. I’ve seen first-hand how funded competition can crush a bootstrapping company. And your search engine rankings drop as competitors hire high-end SEO firms. All of this combines to make vertical niches the best option, by far, for someone bootstrapping a company. #3:

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Like this: Used to be, Twitter let you post anything, even advertisements, even if you didn't identify those tweets as ads. popped up as liaisons between advertisers and popular Twitter-ers. Specifically, an advertiser might be willing to pay $3 to have someone with 10,000 followers tweet about how great their widget is, as in this Ad.ly

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Bootstrapping your business. If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. Using a side business to bootstrap your startup. Let’s begin.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Being a guest on podcast, getting yourself booked on podcast is a really really great SEO tactic, great brand building tactic, Podcast Bookers can get you booked on two to three to four podcast every single month on auto-pilot. You get great back links. People want to share that content, maybe you can even transcribe that content.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Stupid vs Smart: Diesel Typography Advertisements – [link]. 46 Amazing Examples of Public Awareness Advertising – [link]. The future of search & the death of SEO link building? Legal risks and dangers of $99 logo stores – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Transformify

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bootstrapping. SEO & Social Media. ReliableSoft.net emphasizes that you need to look into SEO (search engine optimization) to advertise your business on leading websites and the power of social media to get the word out about your startup. Never Underestimate the Power of Communication. Word of Mouth.

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