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

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. 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. How do people drive SEO growth? It’s worth a quick read.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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You must invest in technology. Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads).

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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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. What is Ulevate?

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology costs. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K. Sales and marketing costs.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

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Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.