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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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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. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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What I know for sure is that if you don’t have a stability goal stated for the company and if you don’t regularly measure how you’re doing against this goal you won’t have your resources focused on the right priorities in the company. How many through SEM? You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many through affiliate deals?

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). I think a great example right now is turntable.fm. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. So it might actually be more productive for you to improve your conversion than to improve your ad buying, for example. If you converted one more customer (6 in stead of 5) your CAC just went down to $167.67 ($1,000 / 6).

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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