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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process to do just that: Tony DeYoung: I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. reviews, trust).

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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

VC Cafe

They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service. Today’s e-consumers are reaping the benefits of eCommerce’s cornerstone: Superior technological innovation.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process: Tony DeYoung: “I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM. Then I perform my own search, going through at least 2 pages of PPC ads and organic results. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

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

Up and Running

Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. It relates to content shares, brand awareness, and even position in search engines, so measuring CAC here can be a whole different challenge.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

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., They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If

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Growth Marketing: The Skills and Frameworks You Need

ConversionXL

Reverse engineer what already works and run experiments over the long-term. Search engine marketing: Driving ROI from searchers. Running search engine marketing (SEM) experiments requires testing more than just the ads themselves. Here’s a rundown of each stage of the SEM journey and how you should experiment on each.

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Why Metrics Get Worse With Scale

Seeing Both Sides

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. Monetization can get harder with scale as well.

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