Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Viral marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. And one day a remarkable thing happened: we started making more than five dollars a day in revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. At any rate, “buzz-worthy” and “viral” are marketing illusions that cost big money to create. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Streaming video.

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

Because pay-per-click advertising (PPC) needs to be an option you consider in order to reach your customers and stay competitive online. PPC stands for “pay-per-click advertising.” It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” The total cost you end up paying is calculated on a per-click basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. At any rate, “buzz-worthy” and “viral” are marketing illusions that cost big money to create. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. Growth marketing doesn’t prescribe quick-fix hacks that any company can apply to “10x their revenue.” For example, say you’re trying to improve top-line revenue.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. And it turns out that we click a lot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. But think of this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 22, 2022

Online advertising includes Google Adwords, also known as pay-per-click (PPC), native advertising, display advertising, and banner advertising. Large traffic sites may also have their own advertising network in addition to using Google Adsense, which is available for free. Utilize Online Marketing Techniques.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV). All else being equal, the incremental cost of acquiring the next customer will always be higher than the last. What happens at 3X?

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%. How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? Whether because of seasonality, day of week, external factors, press, advertising, etc, data just fluctuates.

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PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. While content marketing continues to dominate as a low-cost, but extremely effective, marketing strategy, 80% of small businesses don’t utilize content marketing.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. Also note that the data I’ve provide the candidate so far doesn’t include anything around revenue or costs. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. SearchCap Daily Newsletter.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

Thanks to Richa Pathak, SEM Updates – The next-gen digital marketing ! #5- Just within the last month, Morrow had a medical crisis that almost cost him his life. Not to mention, he stands behind Drift’s spectacular success (during his tenure, the company grew from $0 to eight-figures in revenue). 14-Oprah Winfrey.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. SEM is great because you can capture people as they’re searching for a solution, which is often some of the highest intent traffic you can find. Predictable Revenue. Paid Acquisition. Hacking Sales.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., followed by a series of factors like “cost,” “reputation of instructors,” and “interactivity.” You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

We write often of low-cost, high impact marketing tactics for small businesses and share tips for leveraging these. For instance, if you have a simple goal of driving additional traffic to your site it is easy to measure the results (and cost) of the SEM campaign. To generate sales and revenue? Determine ad type.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Why This Is Important: If you don’t establish specific goals, you will not be able to evaluate the opportunity costs of your SEO efforts or you might give up too quickly. For most businesses, success translates to more revenue (and profits). For example, SEO typically takes months to implement properly. of your intended keywords.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., followed by a series of factors like “cost,” “reputation of instructors,” and “interactivity.” You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. To learn more about SEO and PPC marketing, read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. People’s dissatisfaction with advertising helps to explain why inbound marketing is gaining popularity. Display Ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

Marketing mistakes can cost your business a lot of lost revenue. Requirements: Proven work experience in digital marketing and knowledge of content management, creative writing, advertising concepts and vendor negotiations. Pick the right one, and your return on investment should outweigh the initial cost. .

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

Paid Search is in a silo under Advertising (where nothing else exists, all other advertising you do is conveniently hidden away under, get this, Traffic Sources > Sources > Campaigns!). Find answers and make even faster improvements to your campaigns because remember every paid search visit to your site is costing you money!

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