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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

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.

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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. At any rate, “buzz-worthy” and “viral” are marketing illusions that cost big money to create. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

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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. At any rate, “buzz-worthy” and “viral” are marketing illusions that cost big money to create. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

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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. My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Every time I see a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. At any rate, “buzz-worthy” and “viral” are marketing illusions that cost big money to create. In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2014

We have access to so many online tools that can reduce startup costs and help the company to grow at a much faster rate than it could in the past. There are many options available and may startups end up using too many tools. For most startups out there, this is a system that offers more than is actually necessary.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

But what happens when you grow your business, start running ad campaigns, have more competition and need to stand out on mobile and the web? Imagine that you’ve spent thousands of dollars on an ad campaign only to use a bit.ly New opportunities for website marketing campaigns and strategies become possible.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Would your budget be better spent in January when advertising costs have started to drop? Test your app store creative, your keywords, your ad spend and your email campaigns, and try holiday-specific offers with your SEM. The best place to begin is with a little soul-searching, keeping your goals and budget in mind.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions.

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Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Your team is directly correlated with the valuation of your startup. All of the above is true, but it is also true that many startups have failed because they hired too early, too fast, or fired too late. Many of the points below can be found among the best hiring practices for startups and there is nothing wrong with them in general.

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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. Scott entrepreneur lead generation startup' Social-media advertising.

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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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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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.

Lead Generation 137

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. One of the most commons problems I see with startups that I’ve come across is the lack of a “growth team.”. Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

They take the time to respond to personal messages, so it is not surprising that their startups are regarded in a positive light. Metrics help understand the success or failure of the marketing campaign. Cost per conversion. It has 7 main categories, as follows: Social media marketing. Email marketing. Lead generation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV). All else being equal, the incremental cost of acquiring the next customer will always be higher than the last. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tweet. --> It’s one of the hardest steps in a startup, getting that first rube to part with their money over your barely-minimum barely-viable product. At this point you’ll be tempted to argue that speaking to such a tiny sliver of the population is too narrow-minded, even for a small startup. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid. Cost: Free.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid. Cost: Free.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

While content marketing continues to dominate as a low-cost, but extremely effective, marketing strategy, 80% of small businesses don’t utilize content marketing. While content marketing continues to dominate as a low-cost, but extremely effective, marketing strategy, 80% of small businesses don't utilize content marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Why This Is Important: If you don’t establish specific goals, you will not be able to evaluate the opportunity costs of your SEO efforts or you might give up too quickly. If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA). Popular keywords have higher costs. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Tracking and performance reporting.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. And Good luck! Others, were great ideas.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

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. Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing). What have you seen in your own paid search campaigns?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. In fact, in most situations its a bad idea for startups to synchronize these events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Mailchimp , Constant Contact , JangoMail and the like make it easy to create and manage email campaigns and special Thank You’s can be sent using any of these or other services. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2010

The only concern was that they didn’t know what their cost of customer acquisition was, nor did they which channels would be most effective, or how much they could acquire out of each channel. How good are you going to be on your first direct mail campaign compared to an agency who specializes in it. Same thing with direct mail.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics. In fact, 15% of them are outsourcing design and development of their SM campaigns, 11% using outside capacity to create content and 10% are outsourcing their social media analytics. Consumerization of products.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

We write often of low-cost, high impact marketing tactics for small businesses and share tips for leveraging these. We believe that small business and startups should always be willing to experiment with marketing tactics and strategies as long as those serve a larger goal and contribute to a clear strategy. Target effectively.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here’s how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here's how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

Customer 60

Customer PPC Campaign SEM 60