Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Let me give you an example.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. How many through SEM? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. That’s not acceptable. But what is industry standard? Is it 4/1,000?

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

Web 2.0 222

Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. You’re reading their press releases or blog posts.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Here are three elements of most viral marketing campaigns: Hire brand evangelists.

Marketing 56

Marketing SEM Blogging Design 56

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

He and his team didn’t stop there… they dug into SEM and affiliates among other practices in their toolkits. They developed lifecycle marketing to drive retention, which was facilitated through email and other triggers within the service to get back those who churned. About Richie Hecker.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. You must apply dedicated resources to your SEM efforts, either in-house or via a trusted third-party partner, in order to maximize customers acquired from this channel. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. The first mistake that mostly only rookies make is to measure the CAC by looking at the attributable marketing costs of acquiring a user.

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts. Tracking and performance reporting.

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90