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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. That channel giveth and then taketh away so you had millions of users who had not grown accustomed to the feature set of Viddy and thus didn’t stick around.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

When I tell audiences that Americans consume 6 hours of video per day people seldom believe me (thus I publish the data). Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). As I point out frequently, people want to consume video.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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. ” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. I recommend hiring or appointing a growth hacker.” Doesn’t.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

What channels will you use (e.g., Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? Internationalization/Localization Do you anticipate an international audience? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth

ConversionXL

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Okay, so it’s important to capitalize on effective channels that are conducive to growth at scale. An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Channels. You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. Paid Acquisition.

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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. High LTV can usually be found in transactional or subscription businesses. In addition, churn tends to rise as a company grows.

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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

ConversionXL

Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6 We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. These channels combined are generating hundreds of thousands of views a day, none of which we pay for. Giant channel examples are Smarter EveryDay , Mark Rober , and MKBHD.

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