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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. And given that Facebook and Twitter currently pay you zero for content marketing and Google SEM charges you for customer acquisition – what exactly are you b g about? Startup Lessons'

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Forceā€¦ From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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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). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEM is sometimes called ā€œbuying your way into search results.ā€ Popular keywords have higher costs.

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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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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs youā€™ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom ā€œfree.ā€.

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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. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet.

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