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[Infographic] Is SEO Or SEM Better For Online Marketing?

YoungUpstarts

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. SEM for Beginners.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

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. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. This has led to exponential growth.

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

Do you want a target audience to gain greater awareness of your offering as a viable alternative (Brand Awareness)? Do you know your target audience well enough to fully understand the problem, and how your product delivers the right solution? Are you simply looking for more people to buy your product (raw traffic)? Brand Awareness.

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Small Business Marketing Guide: Types of Traditional and Online Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

To learn more about SEO and PPC marketing, read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is a type of referral marketing. For example, we have an affiliate program at crowdSPRING that rewards others for sending business to us. Display Ads.

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Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web: Do You Have To Choose?

YoungUpstarts

The apps versus mobile browser discussion is really about audience segmentation and user behavior patterns. This is driven by the fact that a company’s mobile site is intimately connected with all its marketing activities including email, SEO/SEM, affiliates, etc. If done right, both are strategic and valuable.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. Our onboarding consists of over 200 different emails based on our audiences, and we continue to improve it every week. One important thing to consider is that these are very targeted audiences: startups, VC’s, and so on.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships. An intimate and specific knowledge of the channels that are most effective in reaching a product’s target audience is critical. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. Each channel has its own advantages, trade-offs, and idiosyncrasies.