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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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Social Media Marketing Should Not Be Used Alone Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. This is independent of whether your existing marketing media include traditional or social media, or both. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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Don’t Limit Your Startup Marketing To Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. This is independent of whether your existing marketing media include traditional or social media, or both. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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5 Steps To Effective Marketing With Converged Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. This is independent of whether your existing marketing media include traditional or social media, or both. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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5 Steps to Successful Marketing With Multiple Media

Startup Professionals Musings

This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” a recent book by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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