article thumbnail

Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Most videos are now in-stream (no download first), and new ones can be interactive, with clickable hot spots. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there? Viral marketing. Internet radio.

Internet 239
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

SEM 164
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. Having a high position can make a huge difference to “organic” downloads. That gets you 45,000 or so downloads in today’s crowded ecosystem.

SEM 379
article thumbnail

Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Most videos are now in-stream (no download first), and new ones can be interactive, with clickable hot spots. Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there? Streaming video. Internet radio.

Internet 224
article thumbnail

3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports

Occam's Razor

Not only will I tell you about them, I'll give you downloadable links so you can get going right away! You can use them as is, or, better still, you can download and adapt them to your unique business needs. Or even if they don't donate or download, they'll at least be much better aware of my brand. celebrate.].

Analytics 126
article thumbnail

How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. In the mobile world many apps are downloaded but never used or perhaps only used for one day. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better.

Metrics 346
article thumbnail

Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

crowdSPRING Blog

Tip: Make your menu available as text, not as a downloadable PDF. Users don’t like downloading files and many will be accessing your site without the ability to view PDS. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Personality!

Web 127