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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA).

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Facebook alone has 500 million members.

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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. As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and most often operate remotely (from anywhere in the world) in this age of the Internet. 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.

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. 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.