Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. There is a reason that sites like Priceline.com Europe and Facebook, which everyone believes were made popular by viral marketing, have spent at least $50 million each becoming a household name. Seed viral activity. Marty Zwilling.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? How Do I Start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. There is a reason that sites like Priceline.com Europe and Facebook, which everyone believes were made popular by viral marketing, have spent at least $50 million each becoming a household name. Seed viral activity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. There is a reason that sites like Priceline.com Europe and Facebook, which everyone believes were made popular by viral marketing, have spent at least $50 million each becoming a household name. Seed viral activity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. Setup a simple website.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tweet. --> It’s one of the hardest steps in a startup, getting that first rube to part with their money over your barely-minimum barely-viable product. At this point you’ll be tempted to argue that speaking to such a tiny sliver of the population is too narrow-minded, even for a small startup. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

First and foremost, you want your visitors to remember your restaurant’s name. If the site URL doesn’t contain the name or contains only a portion of the name, your visitors might become confused and think that they’re on the wrong website. Startup and Small Business Marketing: Website Optimization Mistakes.

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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! Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

If you don’t have a dedicated website for your startup or small business, you are not alone. For good examples of startup websites that showcase a single product or service, I recommend you read Showcasing The Design of Startup Websites. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

Instead of being limited to domain names such as.COM,ORG,EDU , etc., And, it’s not just brands, it’s also people buying domains to secure their family name or an easy to remember email address for business cards or redirecting to an existing personal website. NEWS ,LIVE,ROCKS,ATTORNEY,REVIEWS, and.VIDEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. There is a reason that sites like Priceline.com Europe and Facebook, which everyone believes were made popular by viral marketing, have spent at least $50 million each becoming a household name. Seed viral activity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. There is a reason that sites like Priceline.com Europe and Facebook, which everyone believes were made popular by viral marketing, have spent nearly $50 million each becoming a household name. Seed viral activity. Plan for it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

The basic idea is to extend agile, which excels in situations where the problem is known but the solution is unknown, into areas of even greater uncertainty, such as your typical startup. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Talk about waste.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? In fact, in most situations its a bad idea for startups to synchronize these events. Most startups arent so fortunate. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said. million jobs. Who needs freelancers?

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Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Your team is directly correlated with the valuation of your startup. All of the above is true, but it is also true that many startups have failed because they hired too early, too fast, or fired too late. Many of the points below can be found among the best hiring practices for startups and there is nothing wrong with them in general.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. It strokes your ego. Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already. Keep ‘em coming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. These founders need a reality check on what recognized brand names have spent to reach that threshold, and how long it is likely to take.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

Use your platform as a way for others to get their name out there, and the gesture will be reciprocated. And we also search the internet for ways to find and contact these influential people and companies either on their websites or companies websites or through other startup accelerators’ websites. Photo Credit: Chris Gadek.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

If you don’t have a dedicated website for your startup or small business, you’re in danger to fall further behind your competition. Moreover, because most small business and startup sites have fewer than a dozen pages total, the homepage is an important anchor for your overall site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. These founders need a reality check on what recognized brand names have spent to reach that threshold, and how long it is likely to take.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. Running search engine marketing (SEM) experiments requires testing more than just the ads themselves. What are “pirate metrics?”.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. The Ansoff Matrix , named for its strategist creator Igor Ansoff, can be a helpful tool as you evaluate growth opportunities. Failing fast is different from failing often.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. The first package usually starts at $5, hence the name. The name of the site can be misleading because applicants might think that it focuses on hourly jobs only, but there are also other employment opportunities offered here, including freelancing gigs. Teaching and Tutoring. Translation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. These founders need a reality check on what recognized brand names have spent to reach that threshold, and how long it is likely to take. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the first few pages of any search results. You need to name every page of your web site, and these names must contain your important search keywords. Image attributes and sub-folder names. Make sure you have no dead links on your own site.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Maybe you’re at a startup whose acquisition engine is fueled by SEO. The name of the game is iterative testing , so if you were on to something, try a few iterations. We built this model with the belief that you can and should customize variables based on what matters to your business. Add it as a variable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. Her previous startup, a real estate tech company, was acquired in 2019. So I spent over 12 years in, in startups. We wanna be a startup, but we wanna be established. Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 You dont need as many tools as you think Im always excited to see someone else writing about lessons learned from their startup, and wanted to link today to Untitled - Startup Lessons Learned -- Take it with a grain of salt. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

They take the time to respond to personal messages, so it is not surprising that their startups are regarded in a positive light. Everyone can make a name for themselves, regardless of the scale. It has 7 main categories, as follows: Social media marketing. Email marketing. Lead generation. Conversion rate optimization.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Small businesses are determined to get their name out there, too. Small businesses are determined to get their name out there, too. Successful businesses usually have a strong business name and a professionally designed logo. To learn more about naming your company, read 10 Tips for Naming Your Startup or Small Business.

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