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 Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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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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Internet SEM Wiki Entrepreneur 224

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Would your budget be better spent in January when advertising costs have started to drop? Reach out to bloggers, forums and websites that specialize in promos and deals for advertising or co-marketing opportunities; the more early exposure you can get, the better. Maybe your best bet is to back off of holiday altogether.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. When they had enough of TapJoy driving downloads through CPI (cost per install) they shut down this component of their service. But many people benefitted.

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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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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

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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

PPC advertising. They are put in the situation of tackling advertising in a very competitive industry. Cost per conversion. it is hard to understand why not all entrepreneurs make the shift to advertising delivered through digital channels. It has 7 main categories, as follows: Social media marketing. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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Lead Generation SEM Social Media Startup 248

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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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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. You must invest in technology.

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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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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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Viral Lead Generation Customer SEM 120

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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

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. He continues: “You can be costing your company millions and think that everything is better by relying on pre/post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Paid search marketing is also sometimes called CPC (cost-per-click), or PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because most search engine advertising is sold on a CPC or PPC basis. Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing). Paid search marketing is a very profitable business for search engines.

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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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Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

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. Paid Acquisition. Channel overload – are you overwhelmed?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For example, some companies may choose to outsource their SEM activities, some may decide that their R&D can be outsourced, while others may eventually outsource customer support. Correctly weighing opportunity costs, or staying focused, allows for broader innovation and potential for new models.

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eCommerce Open Source SEM Technical Review 94

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. This includes ads, team costs (fraction of your weekly work hours invested), and any other effort required.

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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

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 example, if your revenue model is driven by advertising on your site, one interim goal could be to drive a certain amount of additional traffic to your site.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

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. It typically costs little to execute (some businesses provide referral payments to customers who bring in other customers).

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Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. But don't take my word for it.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

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. Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. Worse yet, each of these clicks cost about a $1.00.

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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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Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

An example of something similar is the program “ Ciência sem Fronteiras ,” a positive government initiative working to promote science knowledge exchange. For instance, my company is working to give guaranteed promotion, visibility, and advertisement to Brazilian-made apps by branding the “Made In Brazil” app marketplace.

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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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