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

Both Sides of the Table

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. And people employed professional firms to pay money to websites to publish “news stories” that were written by the agency with links back to your site.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media marketing. Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, with popular sites like YouTube , so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Do you have a business presence there?

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Five Elements of a Credible Startup Marketing Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services.

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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 it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news.