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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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Keyword research and budget forecasting. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. If you’re going to offer convenience as your biggest selling proposition you need to make it easy not only to book an appointment and pay for it but also to research which vendor to select based on reputation. Nice sweep!

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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). Keyword research and budget forecasting. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Competition.

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Interview with Billy Fried, Kijubi

socalTECH

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. They get peace of mind that they've got something scheduled.

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