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

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But you also vastly expand the universe of those who will discover the topic and want to do a deep dive, learn more and then spread the idea to others. It’s why super smart people shouldn’t hate on the idea of simplifying if it provides a tool for the masses. How do people drive SEO growth? Underbelly.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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None of the small businesses, these spas, have the expertise or the budget to actually understand lead generation, SEM or SEO, or even know how to manage retention, referrals, expertise, or how to customize or streamline their processes. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. So if you convert 12.5%

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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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. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well.