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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. Kenshoo , the SEM automation startup and Sequoia’s darling, has raised a fourth round of $8-10 million from Sequoia. calcalist ].

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

To find out who your top competitors are: Run a Google search; Check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete, or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in search results or get clicked, you’ve got work to do. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. Which results show up?

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

To find out who your top competitors are: Do a Google search, check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in the search results or doesn’t get clicked on – you know you’ve got work to do. Then I perform my own search, going through at least 2 pages of PPC ads and organic results.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. Search ads are expensive, however. What would they type in a Google search?). How old are they? What do they do?

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Growth Marketing: The Skills and Frameworks You Need

ConversionXL

In another example, let’s say most of your acquisition comes through organic search, but conversion rate to signups is lower than you’d expect. Search engine marketing: Driving ROI from searchers. Running search engine marketing (SEM) experiments requires testing more than just the ads themselves. Image source.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

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., Their ads of “Cloud Demand Prediction” hadn’t been catching the eyes of people searching for these keywords.

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Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap

www.launch.co

Search. -->. For background, Mahalo started with a vision of "human powered search + content" which had nice, moderate -- but not breakout -- success. We hit 15M uniques 18 months ago with our content+search product, but it was largely based on "good content" combined with "excellent SEO." Sign up for our Newsletter. Big Smarts.