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." 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.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

You can promote your site effectively by investing in SEM, SEO, generating top-quality content, and even on paid advertising on search engines. You can even think of using some fast learning skills to learn SEM and SEO on your own. If you are not adept at SEO, you can seek help from SEO experts.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. More Search Engines. The engineer who can get this question is surprisingly rare, but amazingly valuable. Goodbye Google+ People & Pages, Hello Knowledge Graph Box Who Has Search Engine Marketers Backs?

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SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. If you are measuring these two correctly, you can make simple rules/decisions based on your results: If the CAC is over twice the LTV don’t even bother—this channel is likely not going to work. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive).

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Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Get exposure for your expertise. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility.

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Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 257

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Social Media Media SEM Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Get exposure for your expertise. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility.

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Marketing Viral SEM Startup 265

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It’s about identifying the channels and tactics that work best for your organization and then maximizing marketing efforts by confirming the best moves through experimentation. What is growth marketing? And what it isn’t).

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing focuses on promotion through search engines (Google, Bing).

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Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. Next, the Growth Manager works with a cross functional team including engineering, analytics, design, marketing, and product marketing to execute the test.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. Next, the Growth Manager works with a cross functional team including engineering, analytics, design, marketing, and product marketing to execute the test.

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Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), Growth Engineer. You have a product manager, an engineer, data scientists… you have leadership there.” (via CXL Live).

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Marketing Distribution Retention eCommerce 48

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Extensive use of software to automate all processes such as SEO, SEM, social networking, lead scoring, lead nurturing, CRM, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Get exposure for your expertise. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? The Week 5 Lecture: Channel.

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Get exposure for your expertise. Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility.

Marketing 146

Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 146

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. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. Direct channels, indirect channels, OEM.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. He says that intentional Web 2.0 A keyword is not a brand, where there’s emotional connection with the words.” Is It Sticky?

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). If you don’t have a website, your potential customers will find your competitors. If you run a small business, you should have your own website – even if it’s a simple site.

Small Business 93

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 93

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). If you don’t have a website, your potential customers will find your competitors. If you run a small business, you should have your own website – even if it’s a simple site.

Small Business 84

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

To do this well you often hire designers, engineers, and product managers. Getting new customers could be through adding new features (product), hiring people, traditional marketing efforts (social, advertising, SEM, etc), or even traditional sales efforts (sales teams, distributors, affiliates, new channels, etc).

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Sales Product Marketing SEM 75

Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

Especially when the world, and your customers, are shifting to digital channels for entertainment, shopping, and communication with brands. So why is this important to know as you sift through all the potential marketing channels you could choose from? It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.”

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PPC Small Business Management Advertising 81

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

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Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 84

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Google and the other search engines are invaluable resources for helping customers (especially new ones) find you. Pay-per-click.

Small Business 85

Small Business Startup Campaign SEM 85

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Its like knowing the future.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

To do this well you often hire designers, engineers, and product managers. Getting new customers could be through adding new features (product), hiring people, traditional marketing efforts (social, advertising, SEM, etc), or even traditional sales efforts (sales teams, distributors, affiliates, new channels, etc).

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Sales Product Marketing SEM 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

I know, monster list posts are so last year, but I wanted to put together a resource that could be a bit of a guide as you navigate all of the various platforms, networks, and channels available today. The Referral Engine – John Jantsch – Yep, I wrote a book on the subject! SEM Rush – Find profitable key words.

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Lead Generation Social Media Public Relations Channel 28

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Search engine marketing (SEM) and app store optimization (ASO) exploit arbitrage opportunities in keywords and placement, but those arbitrage opportunities are effective only for a moment in time and for a certain level of spend. in 2009 to $11.80 in 2012.

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Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition SEM 20

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

There’s a lot going out there in the many channels small business owners and marketers find themselves, and it’s very helpful to use tools that help you keep track of marketing related metrics. BuzzSumo is essentially a search engine that tracks how content is shared and how it performs.

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Metrics Small Business Analytics SEM 28

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). Tips for measuring offline impact ("conversions) of your online channel: Some of these you might have heard of before, others might be new to you. Two words: Primary Key. Really not a big deal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

There are other models, in other distribution channels. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Blake Engel said. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. How will new customers know that my apps are superior?

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Instead, do your product launch first.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

If you have fifteen years of experience you'll still learn loads from chapters that cover holistic search analytics (internal, SEO, SEM/PPC) and Statistical Significance and Multi Channel Marketing Analytics and Advanced Conversion Rate measurement and more. Bonus: Interactive CD.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Learn a lot from reading Marketing Land and Search Engine Land? Search Engine News, SEO & PPC Info. Recent News at Search Engine Land : Yahoo Answers Hits 300 Million Questions, But Q&A Activity Is Declining. SPONSOR MESSAGE: Search, social, and mobile marketing – How to integrate SEM with emerging media channels.

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