crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to be hire marketers. Search marketing. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 22, 2022

Making the most of your marketing budget to design a successful plan to attract new clients is in your best interests. Utilize Online Marketing Techniques. Large traffic sites may also have their own advertising network in addition to using Google Adsense, which is available for free. Marketing Using Social Media .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. They also avoid Reg D.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals? In 6 months?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Marketing SEM Startup Viral 235

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. The browser-based Internet launched many new companies, several of which have achieved market capitalizations in the billions. The distribution techniques are completely new.

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 146

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation.

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Entrepreneur SEM Lead Generation Social Network 267

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Many small business owners and young entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing. There’s a good reason for this: marketing is expensive, can be time-consuming, and can be a waste of time. But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. Online Marketing. Email Marketing.

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Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. billion users).

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Social Media Media SEM Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

2015 was a great year for Content marketers and brand owners. Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation.

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Product Entrepreneur SEM Lead Generation 223

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! 3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. So don’t be intimidated by the rules — just grab your thesaurus and get going.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Apr-15: Head of Marketing (growth team). Lean marketing. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing? the marketing to get potential customers to use that weekend website. Marketing (12). Social Networking (22). social networking. And… what else?”).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is what brand marketers and consumer packaged goods companies have been studying and refining for years: how to win the battle in your mind before you ever set foot in the store. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Just bringing a good app to market isnt going to be enough.

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur SEM Lead Generation Social Network 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. In the right situation, its a very useful tactic, too.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

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., Our suggestion was, “run away from the academic researcher market as fast as possible.”

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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.). For other small businesses, I recommend you read Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips. Your website will be the hub for all your online and offline marketing efforts.

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Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 93

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

in recent years: accelerate smartphone penetration, increasing consumption of online video and social networking, and boosting mobile ad spending, e-commerce, and more. An example of something similar is the program “ Ciência sem Fronteiras ,” a positive government initiative working to promote science knowledge exchange.

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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.). For other small businesses, I recommend you read Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips. Your website will be the hub for all your online and offline marketing efforts.

Small Business 84

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Outsourcing social media. Many small business owners are devoting a significant chunk of their capacity to social media marketing, albeit sometimes with limited results. Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics.

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Small Business Securities and Exchange Commission Social Media Startup 92

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2010

.   With apologies to Monty Python, and on the heels of last week’s fracas about social networking having more users than email, once again I say, email is Not Dead Yet!   First, Sherry Chiger’s story in Direct that One in Five Merchants Shuns Marketing Email has a poor headline for an interesting, data-rich article.

Social Network 48

Social Network SEM B2C Social Media 48

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2010

.   With apologies to Monty Python, and on the heels of last week’s fracas about social networking having more users than email, once again I say, email is Not Dead Yet!   First, Sherry Chiger’s story in Direct that One in Five Merchants Shuns Marketing Email has a poor headline for an interesting, data-rich article.

Social Network 48

Social Network SEM B2C Social Media 48

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2010

.   With apologies to Monty Python, and on the heels of last week’s fracas about social networking having more users than email, once again I say, email is Not Dead Yet!   First, Sherry Chiger’s story in Direct that One in Five Merchants Shuns Marketing Email has a poor headline for an interesting, data-rich article.

Social Network 48

Social Network SEM B2C Social Media 48