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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

If you already have a strong customer base, create a brief survey to help you determine what social media sites they’re using and how to reach them in a targeted way. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Assess your target customer demographics.

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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. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. ” Me? Underbelly.

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

socalTECH

They''re mostly C level executives, and households with incomes of over $200,000 a year, which makes advertisers on our site such as Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Mercedes, Ritz Carlton, and Mandarin Oriental a big component of our business. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. How have those changes helped grow the firm?

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Viral marketing.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. John Wanamaker.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there? Streaming video.

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Interview with Billy Fried, Kijubi

socalTECH

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. Online travel sites are great for getting you to the location, but they don't give you any good ideas for when you get there. We're really in the memories business.

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