Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

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. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. We finally settled on a $1.99 Nothing made any difference. I used to use $.05,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

More often This logic can be extrapolated to the web world to mean: more users, visiting your site more often, for longer amounts of time to maximize advertising exposure. Buy a higher quantity 2. of higher priced items 3. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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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. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

International SEM and SEO have become more important in the last few years – what areas should people focus on? With both SEO and SEM, you need to research the market before you enter. In Japan, more than 85% of people search to gather information about the services or products that they plan to purchase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors.

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