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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Generate leads for your product.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Generate leads for your product.

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Five Elements of a Credible Startup Marketing Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Put out regular press releases for search purposes and general visibility. Generate leads for your product.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Day 1: Post hiring ad for lead generation VA. Ideal rates for lead generation research: $4-7/hour.

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How Networking Can Increase Your Sales and Help Your SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

Offering to speak at one of their events or collaborate with them on a white paper gives you the opportunity to showcase your industry expertise while tapping into and connecting with their existing network. Two Ways to Make Social Networking Really Pay First off I want to apologize to anyone who came.

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Three Key Principles to Maximize Your Converged Media Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

As this graph showcases, in the beginning, brands focused on growing their social audience as a means of reaching out to more people with traditional marketing messages on nontraditional platforms. Then, marketers went a step further by using various calls-to-action to encourage brand conversation on the social networks themselves.

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