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Marketing Your App This Holiday

YoungUpstarts

The best place to begin is with a little soul-searching, keeping your goals and budget in mind. Also revisit affiliate and partner relationships and offer temporarily better rates for marketing promotions. Test your app store creative, your keywords, your ad spend and your email campaigns, and try holiday-specific offers with your SEM.

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The Case for In-Stream Advertising

Both Sides of the Table

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. At the time Google said it was against sponsored links because it confused the person searching for content – one of the main arguments people are again using about in-stream advertising. Why not?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. How many adds came through organic SEO? Do you have a customer referral program?

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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. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed.

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

Though search marketing, display advertising, social media, and mobile remain the mainstays of a digital advertising footprint, each has its role in supporting a particular business objective. Are you using the right search terms to garner attention organically? Raw Traffic. Current Customers. Social Marketing.

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Small Business Marketing Guide: Types of Traditional and Online Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing focuses on promotion through search engines (Google, Bing). There are two distinct forms of search engine marketing: organic (search engine optimization or SEO) and paid (pay-per-click or PPC). Affiliate Marketing. Display Ads.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email. This person is also creative, curious and always looking for new ways to engage our customers.