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

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? SEO is seldom “free.”. How many through affiliate deals?

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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