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. Driving huge audiences can be worth millions of dollars, that’s why. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral.

SEM 379

SEM Viral Marketing Widget 379

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? .

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. 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. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. Social and Display Ads.

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience.

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

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.

Channel 165

Channel PPC Marketing SEO 165

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103