Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a few years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Streaming video. Crowdsourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a few years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a couple of years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And we wanted a head of global marketing. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. Ethan recruited a great team of people to help build this proposition including Lisa Robinson running marketing and Rahul Thathoo as CTO who have been working tirelessly for the past year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise. It’s about looking out for and catching the next major marketing wave before others have grokked it. I laughed as I did at much of his rant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. You have a marketing department with three people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. and tips for buyers looking for logo design. crowdSPRING is a small business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. and tips for buyers looking for logo design. crowdSPRING is a small business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

After all, marketing is as much a science as it is an art. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). For a small businesses, efforts spent on one marketing initiative typically take away from other marketing initiatives. Use a responsive design.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” According to a recent McKinsey survey, 83% of CEOs said they depend on digital marketing to be the major driver of growth. How do marketers promote a company’s content?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

But then the tips discussed below will help you master your marketing messages to win more traffic and conversions: #1. As it turns out, nearly all marketing articles drum on this fact: that you need to have a crystal clear idea about your target audience you are speaking to. I know, it’s easier said than done. Not enough employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. They also avoid Reg D.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever. So they set out a grass route’s effort to go directly to the market. There has been all sorts of discussions about marketing on blogs lately.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. Now the VP of Marketing starts sweating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Every time I see a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a couple of years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Seed viral activity.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

by Deanna Ayres, SEM Strategist and Community Outreach Supervisor at The Marketing Zen Group. Deanna Ayres is the SEM Strategist and Community Outreach Supervisor at The Marketing Zen Group. Growing up in Europe has allowed her a unique insight into cultural differences in business & marketing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s an email I got last week: Hello Jason, I am a big fan of your advice and wanted to see if you could offer any advice for marketing my start-up XYZ. Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. Any advice will help. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

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. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals? Do you have a customer referral program?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. All three probably make attempts at world-of-mouth marketing - its just that for Viral, its life-or-death. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In the world of data-driven marketing, more and more tasks require a bit of coding. Which programming language should marketers learn? Marketing goals: accessing in-depth user data from your company’s database; running advanced queries on Google Analytics data, etc. How SQL solves real-world marketing problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. Let innovation happen and the market decide - I don’t how all of this will end up. If the market rejects in-stream then the market wins. And if the market rejects in-stream then we still win.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2016

by Vitaly Petritchkovitch, Director of Marketing at Audiobooks.com. December is a critical time for app marketers. It may seem strange, but ask yourself if you really need to market during the holiday. But if the holiday season is indeed an important opportunity for you, here are three tips for marketing your app: 1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. I further that.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Rob Sobers said about the marketing growth strategy, “It’s not about tactics—it’s about people and process.”. When it comes to process, growth marketers must learn to fail. A marketing growth strategy is about small and incremental wins that build up over time. Growth marketing is about process over tactics.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. Kenshoo , the SEM automation startup and Sequoia’s darling, has raised a fourth round of $8-10 million from Sequoia. calcalist ].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. An example is seen below: Courtesy of DragonSearch Marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

The startup’s success primarily depends on your vision and how you execute it in the market. . They can set up their startup by providing customized packages and then expand it according to the market demand. Digital Marketing. In that case, you can thrive in the flourishing field of the digital marketing sector.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

By Bill Glenn, Vice President of Marketing at Rightside. New opportunities for website marketing campaigns and strategies become possible. What is the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) value of new domains? New domain extensions are a boon to SEM efforts. One of the newest domains is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Just put in your credit card.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” According to a recent McKinsey survey, 83% of CEOs said they depend on digital marketing to be the major driver of growth. How do marketers promote a company’s content?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing. Direct mail marketing. Social-media advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2018

They can work with full-service digital marketing companies that can assist them with all aspects that involve the internet and related topics. Businesses that are searching for conversions can accomplish a lot through hiring digital marketing professionals for their campaign efforts. Commercial settings need to be spick and span.

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