Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about top-down versus bottom-up thinking. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. Let’s say you have a marketing department with an incredibly talented leader who knows SEO, SEM, social media and how to hit the ball off the cover on press coverage.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Marty Zwilling.

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Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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.” That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Marty Zwilling.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Marty Zwilling.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox.

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Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Marty Zwilling.

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Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids'' soccer game. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Marty Zwilling.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder.

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Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Yet, winter is always coming for a startup and thus a new breed has arisen from the ashes and honed a new set of skills, the Growth Hacker. This is the most important role because this person graduates a company from startup to viable long-term business.

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Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

In addition to all of them reaching the pinnacle of their chosen professions, they also all started their careers performing the same job. They also accounted for each paper and were often financially penalized for any papers which were lost , thereby developing strong internal controls.

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Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. Nice sweep!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder.

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Startup High Tech Search Engine Optimization SEM 50

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. Scott Morrow: In the first half of 2013, our growth in search engine marketing traffic was up 70 percent.

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Pricing Sites Marketing SEM 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. Plan for it. Marty Zwilling.

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Marketing SEM Blogging Design 56

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. Understanding what lights up actions from your social campaigns and earned media is the key to improving future performance. Startup Advice' End of story. Which followers drove your RTs that drove your clicks.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. They also avoid Reg D.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks!

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