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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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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors.

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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Neither is it to achieve the greatest reach or “virality” in one’s digital campaign. Covering a wide range of topics on social Customer Relationship Management (CRM), this ambitious book spans a wide spectrum of social business topics. S = Strategy, the stuff that the book teaches.

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What did they do before you came along?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Hallmark is a tough competitor too, and Walgreens and CVS are difficult channels to enter. Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. What about veterinarians?

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Summer Business Books: What to Read Now

crowdSPRING Blog

Books, newspapers, magazine, blogs, comment threads. Put the written word in front of me, whether on a sheet of paper bound into a book or magazine, or as pixels on a glowing screen and I will consume it. I must have been channeling someone else for a moment there. Why wouldn’t I take this book to the beach?

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