Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. Blake, thanks for the comment! Which app is yours?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product.

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Most advertisers continue to increase their digital marketing spend in 2019 as billions of consumers are using online social media as a jumping off point into purchase decisions. As mobile devices have become more ubiquitous, programmatic advertising has increased in efficacy since it can deliver location-based advertising.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

facepalm Spammed within an hour >> 2012/02/28 RT @mikeloukides : best customer may not be the 1 who buys the most, but who has the most influence on social networking. Mobile (3). Social Networking (22). social networking. And… what else?”). I Don’t Need You Anymore. Database (7).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Online marketing relies on strategies that leverage the Internet and mobile devices. To learn more about SEO and PPC marketing, read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. Social Media Marketing. These efforts can be paid (buying ads on those networks) or free (engaging and sharing great content).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). In fact, you can use a third-party service to automatically create a mobile version of your site (many are free and others have low monthly fees). Leverage Your Website For Customer Service.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). In fact, you can use a third-party service to automatically create a mobile version of your site (many are free and others have low monthly fees). Leverage Your Website For Customer Service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. Or if your lifetime value is high enough, you can just keep spending on SEM. The observation sounds strange.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Yes, it’s a bonus that they’re free – I don’t know a marketer alive who doesn’t get the stink eye from their CFO for all the monthly tool subscriptions they use – and even better, they work flawlessly on my mobile phone. My favorite analytics tool for social media is Moz Pro. image credit.

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