A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. Getting other people to notice, isn’t. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When starting Blog For Web , a site that tries to help bloggers, we tried dozens of software tools before we figured out what would be best. Besides that, you may want to consider SEMRush in the event that you want to run some SEO or SEM campaigns since it helps you to manage everything properly.

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Software Review Software SEM Startup 214

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

In a business plan these are called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum.

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Viral Cost Marketing SEM 141

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. Critical roles include a director, community manager, blog editor, blogger(s), channel specialists, SEO specialists, photographers/videographers, producers, and analytics specialist.

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Technical Review Social Media SEM SCRUM 159

YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

But what happens when you grow your business, start running ad campaigns, have more competition and need to stand out on mobile and the web? Imagine that you’ve spent thousands of dollars on an ad campaign only to use a bit.ly New opportunities for website marketing campaigns and strategies become possible.

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SEM Los Angeles Software Review Naming 100

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Where you can (this is not difficult to do when you use content management systems – such as a WordPress blog), use natural sounding names for your URLs and titles. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Personality!

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Web Design Flash SEM 127

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Where you can (this is not difficult to do when you use content management systems – such as a WordPress blog), use natural sounding names for your URLs and titles. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Where you can (this is not difficult to do when you use content management systems – such as a WordPress blog), use natural sounding names for your URLs and titles. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

This includes creating content like blog posts, videos, social media posts, and more. Paid search engine marketing (SEM) increases a company’s ranking in the search engine, getting more clicks. This is the power of SEM marketing. Tools like Google Analytics and Optimizely reveal key metrics to track campaigns and run A/B tests.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). It's a tall order, but after two years of blogging why stop now. : ). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. Because it is hard. Not impossible.

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Image source.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and short-term campaigns; Automation for scale; Targeting; Blending optimization with attribution. Ignore blog posts that tell you “99 Things You Can A/B Test Right Now.” A lot of blog posts tout magic numbers like “100 conversions” or “1,000 visitors” as stopping points.

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Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

There are certainly companies doing them well, but not a lot of detail goes into instruction, and the blog posts out there on how to build personas are generally pretty bad. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., and “What blogs do you read regularly?” What do you want to know?

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? Descriptive names, such as Stuff White People Like or Blogging Basics 101 , immediately convey information about what you do. How Do I Start? The downside?

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and Short-Term Campaigns. Don’t listen to any blog posts that tell you “99 Things You Can A/B Test Right Now.” You’ll read a lot of blog posts that have magic numbers like “100 conversions” or “1,000 visitors” as their stopping points. Automation for Scale. How do we do that?

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Technical Review Analytics Software Review Framework 48

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

There are certainly companies doing them well, but not a lot of detail goes into instruction, and the blog posts out there on how to build personas are generally pretty bad. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., and “What blogs do you read regularly?”

Software Review 115

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

47% of small business owners execute marketing campaigns entirely on their own. It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” The general goal with PPC advertising is to target the right keywords and organize them into effective campaigns and ad groups to make the cost of clicks trivial. What is PPC?

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PPC Small Business Management Advertising 81

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Most campaigns can be optimized to increase conversion rates and lower costs. Intercom allows you to build drip email campaigns based on specific actions users take on your site.

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Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign. Present and explain your marketing campaign.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 318

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. Forty-two percent of marketers cite lack of quality data as their biggest obstacle when implementing successful lead generation campaigns.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the last 13 years he’s worked with companies like Target, Jeeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. Over the last 13 years, he's worked with companies like Target, Jeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. So Ryan, welcome to the show. Ryan: Thanks for having me, John. Ryan: Sure.

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 92

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Google Adwords lets its users launch campaigns directly from your research on keywords, making it a one-stop shop for keyword success.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? They would perform a time period comparison, looking back 6-12 months ago when you started the campaign and comparing with the conversion rate you have now (linear analysis). Same question: how can you justify your contribution?

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PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tip: Do your best to keep conversions tied to the same outcome for the various SEO campaigns you’ll undertake. First, it created useless data because we could not compare conversion rates later in our campaigns to the earlier data. There are many excellent online tools that will help you with SEO campaigns.

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SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Google Adwords lets its users launch campaigns directly from your research on keywords, making it a one-stop shop for keyword success.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

PPC experts charge you to research, analyze, and estimate hit ratios, to optimize your success and set a campaign spending budget for you. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Other PPC experts will track your campaign from click to transaction, providing you with detailed reports on and return on investment (ROI).

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Search PPC Widget SEO 226

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2012

We use several vendors for email marketing, including Campaign Monitor and MailChimp – we recommend both services. For example, people typically open more travel related emails than emails from e-commerce vendors, as seen in this graphic from Campaign Monitor. 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips.

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Email Small Business SEM Marketing 116

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing). For practical tips, you can also read Ten Practical Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Tips and 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. What have you seen in your own paid search campaigns? New SEO Starter Guide From Google.

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Search SEM PPC Engineer 100

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

In your web analytics tool simply go to the Referring URL's / Sites report and take a look, you'll find something like this…… For this site Google Analytics illustrates that both myspace.com and simplyhired.com is not sending great traffic, while their direct marketing campaigns (#2 and #3 above) seem to be doing much better.

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Metrics Analytics PPC Campaign 121

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Blogs and Newsletters. Need original content for your blogs or newsletters? SEO/SEM Content. Need to generate great search engine optimization (SEO) content or develop strong search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns? Leverage our community to help you develop a great tagline for your business. Advertising/Marketing.

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Non-disclosure Agreement SEM Non-Compete Community 93

Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

International SEM and SEO have become more important in the last few years – what areas should people focus on? With both SEO and SEM, you need to research the market before you enter. to create effective campaigns. International SEO and SEM are not just for Multinational Corporations, but also for mid-small businesses.

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Chicago Search SEM Asia 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you want your campaigns to produce results, your marketing needs constant attention and consistent effort. Writing a random blog post every couple of months, sending a one-off email promoting a new product, or following a content calendar sometimes —isn’t going to cut it. . Creating content for publishing on your blog.

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Hiring Management Marketing Social Media 98

Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

It was during this time that I actually started this blog (when it was all about Marketing). Some of the campaigns I worked on were traditional banners campaigns while others were more sophisticated sponsorships of the apps and programs of the day such as instant messaging clients, rollovers, and takeovers on sites.

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SEM Advertising Metrics Analytics 83

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

For instance, if you have a simple goal of driving additional traffic to your site it is easy to measure the results (and cost) of the SEM campaign. Here is a short tutorial for getting your Facebook campaign going: Set goals. Be very clear with what you are trying to accomplish with your Facebook campaign.

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Advertising Lean Marketing Campaign 103

Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

You are participating in a keynote roundtable this year at the SES 2008 show in San Jose about attributing sales to Search – How much credit does an SEM program deserve in an overall marketing mix? How do you determine the success of a Search campaign? What is your blog or a place where people can get in contact with you?

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San Jose SEM Campaign SEO 60

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Mailchimp , Constant Contact , JangoMail and the like make it easy to create and manage email campaigns and special Thank You’s can be sent using any of these or other services. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*.

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Small Business Startup Campaign SEM 85