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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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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Brittleness comes from “One Thing”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

, but informally I’ve observed the following things, which follow a pattern that can be identified and counteracted: The initial marketing channel quickly saturated , so growth stalled at a non-zero but unsustainably-low rate. The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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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). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. Not so fast. Build a Global Business.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Steve Blank

For example, our goal could be: Create demand for our products and drive it into our sales channel. Do you want them to download a demo, schedule a sales call, visit a physical store location or a website, download an app, click for more information, give you their email address, etc.? What’s the call to action?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. In the mobile world many apps are downloaded but never used or perhaps only used for one day. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] 20:58] Are there any overlooked channels or platforms worth exploring? This is John Jantsch.

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