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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

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Doing the Right Thing > Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. Vanity metrics will make you feel good about site traffic of SEO over conversion rate or purchases of your product will get more attention than retention. So my corollary has always been “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.”

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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But if your goal is to develop an audience that can be monetized in other ways, I’ll repeat my argument “you need to fish in the pond where the fish are.” And here’s the thing … YouTube PAYS YOU to develop these audiences. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? Final example.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. 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.”.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. What is Ulevate? Instead, we give it to them for free. Eighteen to twenty percent of the revenue is services.

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