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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Read everything you can about viral marketing. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

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7 Steps To A Memorable New Venture Marketing Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? As an advisor to many entrepreneurs and small businesses, I often get asked where to start, and how to proceed.

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How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Read everything you can about viral marketing. entrepreneur get started small business social media' My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn.

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Too Busy for Social Media Marketing Could Be Fatal

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Read everything you can about viral marketing. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Pull Investors to Your Business Plan With a Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Executive team.