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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. Establish partners and referrals. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Establish partners and referrals. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. I have a couple of points and resources to add. And Good luck!

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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. Establish partners and referrals. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

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Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Establish partners and referrals. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

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. Leveraging the power of your customers’social networks to get viral growth where possible. So far we have been very effective using blogs, social networks, etc.