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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

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For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

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It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. This post has been removed by the author. November 5, 2008 10:13 AM spanky said.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

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This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. Another way to promote the website is doing organize search. For example, make sure your website is in the first page of Google search for the given keyword. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said. A very interesting strategy.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Im on the team that released one of the Taxi apps, and we agree that the "SEO" and placement on the App Store can sometimes leave users with insufficient or inaccurate information to make decisions. Hey Eric, very interesting post.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

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Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. Hell no, “fire that customer!

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

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March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said. Anyhow I have used the soft product launch myself, and this is the best thing to do in most cases. Great blog BTW, adding this to my favourites. March 13, 2009 9:32 PM Postcard Printing said. This is a great post. Thanks for sharing some ideas. SOme very good adwise.