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

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While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. 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.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. EQ and Team Leadership? Nail on the head. This is what I would look for above all else.

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There’s No Such Thing as an MCN. It’s a Figment of Your Imagination

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Each distribution channel you sell products in has its own unique customer base but your goal is to build a relationship with those end customers. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. But ignoring SnapChat for video is a mistake. You would never only sell in Walmart.

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