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

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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. ” Here are some examples: 1. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. But think of this.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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But many CEO’s and management teams fail to set clear guidelines on what the company objectives are and make sure that everybody is driving toward the same goal. It’s actually quite hard to lay out an annual company strategy that is articulate and underpinned by facts. Let me give you an example.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Most of the money in the space space, all the big players, sell cosmetics and things like Botox, and there are a bunch of companies manufacturing equipment which they sell from $30,000 to $50,0000. 250 billion is made by the little spas. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.