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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. 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.

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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. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. John Wanamaker.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. If you figure out how to scale a video product inside of Facebook really, really, quickly they’re likely to allow it to happen for a while so they can study the positive & negative impacts on user experiences.

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