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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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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 you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. Do you have a customer referral program? SEO is seldom “free.”.

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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.” For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Full Speed Ahead! Social Media Week Is Here!

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Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Tuesday - Sept 21st - 1PM - Premium Content and Social Media. Tuesday - Sept 21st - 2PM - Exploring User Experience, Content and Brand Strategies for the Social Web.

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Viral Marketing Costs Real Money These Days

Startup Professionals Musings

Develop viral content. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud). The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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7 Startup Marketing Strategies To Bring In Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

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