Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Doesn’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

SEM is great because you can capture people as they’re searching for a solution, which is often some of the highest intent traffic you can find. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. Retention / Churn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. My advice: dont launch big.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Tip#4: Make Your Analysis/Reports "Connectable" Tip#3: Turbocharge Your SEM/PPC Analysis. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Metrics & Analytics. Find Love (/Insights).

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