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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. Most people totally advise against stealth.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. 10% of our revenue is coming from direct sales of our banner inventory.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with.

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Interview with Billy Fried, Kijubi

socalTECH

We talked with Billy last week about the firm, and what it's trying to do: What's the whole idea behind Kijubi? The idea there, is you sift through brochures, and call them to see if they are still there, and then make a reservation. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with.

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

socalTECH

We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. We''re aggressively hiring, which is great news for the local industry, in marketing, sales, and engineering. Our is unique inventory, packaged with the best web pricing. We help reinforce the idea of being in a luxury segment, which really works. That''s not what our partners want.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.