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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Keyword research and budget forecasting. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. But more importantly Ethan developed the belief over time that consumers really needed a service that would allow them to book across many different service businesses from one convenient location.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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