Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2016

by Vitaly Petritchkovitch, Director of Marketing at Audiobooks.com. December is a critical time for app marketers. It may seem strange, but ask yourself if you really need to market during the holiday. Would your budget be better spent in January when advertising costs have started to drop? Build relationships.

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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. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a few years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

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. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a few years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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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. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a couple of years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Social media marketing. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

They have a strong ability to market themselves, which allows these young entrepreneurs to get more clients and grow their business. Those who are starting off their new ventures are able to succeed not necessarily because they have full passion and ambition, but because they are into digital marketing. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Streaming video. Crowdsourcing.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Hence, businesses must employ creative and unique marketing techniques for attracting the right audience in the online or digital space. As per the Huffingtonpost.ca , several businesses are constantly employing digital marketing stratagems for attracting new online leads, visitors, and customers.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Going digital” with your marketing mix has never been more essential. Most advertisers continue to increase their digital marketing spend in 2019 as billions of consumers are using online social media as a jumping off point into purchase decisions. Are you simply looking for more people to buy your product (raw traffic)?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Rather, marketers get trapped in the fervent anxiety of needing to be everywhere at once. An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Channels. Marketers spend a ton of money on search ads, and as you can assume, Google owns a large part of the market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Marketing covers a wide range of activities. From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. There are many ways to market with a small budget.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Email marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

Digital marketing is being used by companies of different sizes for its effectiveness and measurability. Small businesses now have the opportunity to compete with large corporations for the same market segment thanks to digital marketing and the available instruments. Forget about hard-selling your products and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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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. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Email marketing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 22, 2022

Making the most of your marketing budget to design a successful plan to attract new clients is in your best interests. Utilize Online Marketing Techniques. Online advertising includes Google Adwords, also known as pay-per-click (PPC), native advertising, display advertising, and banner advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Email marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference. Just put in your credit card.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. And it’s not just a CRO problem – it is a marketing-wide phenomenon. What is it about?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. And it’s not just a CRO problem—it’s a marketing-wide phenomenon. Competitor X is doing Y. What is it about?

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SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Search Marketing Toolbox. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. What is Social Media Marketing. How To: Social Media Marketing. Social Media Marketing Library. Our Social Media Marketing Events.

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SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Many small business owners and young entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing. There’s a good reason for this: marketing is expensive, can be time-consuming, and can be a waste of time. But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. Online Marketing. Email Marketing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I blog about home and gardening topics and make money from product recommendations to my audience, mostly through Amazon associates program. Currently, I am simultaneously growing my venture, Smarthome NX while also designing a management course in sales and marketing for UpGrad. 6- Men &Women unique product.

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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. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Manage your expectations, and analyze every marketing channel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Paid search marketing is the paid use of search engines (such as Google or Bing) to promote your product or service. 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.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Marc Barros , the founder of Contour cameras wrote a great follow-up to my post on your company’s shift from a product focus to building out a sales and marketing organization that’s definitely worth reading. Square ) to building a small company focused on great products (e.g., A few excerpts here: 1. 37 Signal s).

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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. Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%.

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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. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Manufacturing cost and lead times.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

to nearly 5% of the total retail market, with a forecasted continuous increase. They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service. Tomer Tzach is a VC turned entrepreneur.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Marc Barros , the founder of Contour cameras wrote a great follow-up to my post on your company’s shift from a product focus to building out a sales and marketing organization that’s definitely worth reading. Square ) to building a small company focused on great products (e.g., A few excerpts here: 1. 37 Signal s).

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Sales Product Marketing SEM 48