Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

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. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). In my experience, entrepreneurs who are overly paranoid or are information hoarders rarely do well. The corollary is that it is very hard to recover from a crappy marketing campaign that over-hyped.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just put in your credit card. I used to use $.05,

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. But then, that’s what startups are — a never-ending series of steps where you have almost no information to suggest which step is best. But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. I bought ads for $0.05/click But look at the flip side.

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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. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Tip: Use bold and larger fonts to present key information or to stress things you want the readers to notice. Add text color to stress the most important information. Saying so will help with search engine results and will be very helpful if people are loooking specifically for such information on your site. Personality!

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Keep in mind that when your prospective customers visit your site, they’re typically looking for specific information. A properly structured site that presents information in an orderly and organized way will be much more successful than one that appears chaotic. Add text color to stress the most important information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Keep in mind that when your prospective customers visit your site, they’re typically looking for specific information. A properly structured site that presents information in an orderly and organized way will be much more successful than one that appears chaotic. Add text color to stress the most important information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

There’s a good mix of narrative content and images with useful information to get the user to invest more time reading, if they’re interested. Keep in mind that when your prospective customers visit your site, they’re typically looking for specific information. More on that in tip 6 below.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Its job is also to provide information to people who want to learn and then call your phone center to buy. Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. Because it is hard.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

SEO , SEM, paid advertising , content marketing, social media, email marketing, strategic partnerships with other brands, PR; Activation. Your brand website, product demonstrations and videos, free trials, push notifications, email marketing, targeted ads and campaigns, live chats, content marketing ; Retention. In-quarter execution.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

You may want to create a simple prediction—or automate a few repetitive tasks in your PPC campaigns. One of my former colleagues, Rob, is an SEM guru—with zero coding background. Connect inventory with ad campaigns. After that, the campaigns started and stopped automatically based on the company’s inventory data.

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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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and short-term campaigns; Automation for scale; Targeting; Blending optimization with attribution. Make sure you’re informing your larger goals with this step. Bigger changes like removing distractions or adding key information tend to have more of an impact. Craig Sullivan.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

There are three types of information you will collect, source attributes, page attributes and “user” attributes (non-PII please). Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). There are a billion words about this topic so I’ll stop here. 7: Redirects, be aware of them.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are fundamental to online marketing, and though both are shown to benefit business immensely, they’re not the same. SEM is geared more toward paid search, and SEO is used to drive website traffic through keywords and linking. SEM for Beginners.

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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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., These ended up being the most valuable, in my opinion, for actionable marketing campaign ideas. You have an idea of data you’d like to explore, a hunch of where you might find some interesting information, and you explore those factors.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 8, 2020

Gathering marketing information about your audience can be a difficult task. Is now the best time to start a paid search engine marketing (SEM) campaign? A lot of businesses are trying to boost sales through SEM during the lockdown. Create Your Online Presence. Pexels – CC0 License.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., You’ll walk away with personas you can use for marketing decisions, as well as data to further explore for copy ideas, design guidance, and campaign experiments. If not, be scrappy and use the data to inform your personas. What do you want to know?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

I mean, so the, there is a, you know, there is a need in the customer journey to allow people to get the information they want when they want it. Are you ready to take your business to the next level, to get seen, get SEMrush, visit SEMrush.com that's SEM rush.com/go. So from a marketing perspective, that is such valuable information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Some of the templates look visually pretty, but functionally, they lack many elements that make a website useful and informative for potential customers. Keep in mind that when your prospective customers visit your site, they’re typically looking for specific information. Template sites simply can’t do this properly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. When we look at Twitter we’re following friends or people from whom we want to know more information.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Descriptive names, such as Stuff White People Like or Blogging Basics 101 , immediately convey information about what you do. I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and. The downside? He invented the name Kodak.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Tracking your results is essential to making informed marketing choices and improving your strategy. Tracking your results is essential to making informed marketing choices and improving your strategy. Prioritize gathering the data your small business needs to plan and execute smart marketing campaigns. Click To Tweet.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

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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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

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., They also increased their daily campaign budget to $20.00. but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If

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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

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.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and Short-Term Campaigns. Read this article for more information on bandit algorithms. Make sure you’re informing your larger goals with the analytics in this step. All of this stuff is some of the more complex A/B testing information. PPC/SEM campaign.

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Technical Review Analytics Framework Software Review 48

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2010

It’s not about the traction—it’s about the information that derisks your business and increases it’s enterprise value. That’s quite a stretch from what a skilled SEM expert would do—one who starts tinkering around with time of day, geolocation specific terms, buying hundreds of keywords at a time, etc. Same thing with direct mail.

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Acquisition Hockey Stick Customer SEM 149

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2006

Drop in marketing campaigns, a dynamic site, SEM, more pages, more traffic, promotions and offers and you have a very tough situation to understand. Most web analytics tools will spew out data like there is no tomorrow.

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Analytics Web SEM Metrics 134

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

There are two exceptions: 1) You have a one page website 2) Your offline value proposition is so compelling that people would see just one single webpage and get all the information they need and leave. Are your email, affiliate, other marketing campaigns yielding low bounce rates? Sweet actionable information. Instantly useful!

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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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