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7 Startup Marketing Strategies To Bring In Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Cold calling.

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7 Ways To Improve Return On Your Marketing Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Cold calling.

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I Haven’t Seen A Startup Yet Thrive Without Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results. Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. The start of marketing is figuring out a market need and a way to solve that need better than anybody else.

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Lead Generation Is Still The Lifeblood For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. Cold calling.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost.

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