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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. A negative customer acquisition cost!

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

Both Sides of the Table

We covered the following and much more: - FourSquare ( rumors of both an $80m pre money or a $100 million acquisition ). Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea. I was asked if I would pay $80 million.

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Learn From The Masters of SEO, Social, Branding, Advertising and More | PubCon 2011

Tech Zulu Event

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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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. 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.”. lowering $1.50 per customer!

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Learn From The Masters of SEO, Social, Branding, Advertising and More | PubCon 2011

Tech Zulu Event

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. 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). Tell me a bit about your background.

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

socalTECH

How did you come up with the idea of handling all the shipping details? I read everything online I could about customer acquisition, marketing, design, and coding, and every part of the business I could. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on.

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