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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4).

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Maybe It’s Me When I got to the SuperMac, our Marketing Communications group told me about our “award-winning&# retail packaging for our graphics boards. Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it. Yet when I saw our retail package, I was confused. Worry about the sales results.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.