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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

socalTECH

Mike Mothner: The business today, is we are a digital agency focused on customer acquisition and growth for businesses of all types. Mike Mothner: With the acquisition of Standing Dog, which technically closed today, that added about 75 people to bring us to 260 employees. What has helped you grow to the size where you are now?

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7 Keys To An Engaging Framework For Social Media Mktg

Startup Professionals Musings

The next thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Customer Acquisition. How many adds came through organic SEO? 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.”. How many through affiliate deals? lowering $1.50 increasing conversion from 12.5%

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up. In other words, instead of accepting that “SEO is good,” let's explore what the point of SEO is and when it is actually “good” (that is, promoting a goal). Look forward to connecting around the SEO topic.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

socalTECH

In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high. Customer acquisition costs can be as much as $200 an hour. It's imporant to understand the lifetime value of your customer, understand your customer acquisition costs, and understand your operating margins. Par t of our strategy is unit economics. READ MORE>>.

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How Tradesy Makes Selling Women's Clothing Simple, with Tracy DiNunzio

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We launched into bridal first, and gave us a good start in a niche, and let me prove the business model and myself as an entrepreneur. I read everything online I could about customer acquisition, marketing, design, and coding, and every part of the business I could. I think that's important for other entrepreneurs to know.

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