Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. Market Structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Connections?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. But here are some key reasons for giving it a priority early: You can validate the need and your solution before spending money.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Hands down, the absolute gold mine of how to be found when someone types words into the google search bar is “ The Art of SEO ” by Stephan Spencer , Eric Enge , Rand Fishkin and Jessie Stricchiola.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. But here are some key reasons for giving it a priority early: You can validate the need and your solution before spending money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here. Sales and marketing costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here. Sales and marketing costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. But here are some key reasons why you need to give it some priority: You can validate the need and your solution before spending money.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Posted byTony Karrer at 7:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). Thank God my 9 year old son hasn’t asked me that yet…. I rest my case.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

It was a crash course. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. We don't talk too much about it, but part of our secret sauce is how we've been able to develop some insights into marketplace dynamic and customer acquisition.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). Thank God my 9 year old son hasn’t asked me that yet…. I rest my case.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). Thank God my 9 year old son hasn’t asked me that yet…. I rest my case.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Another representative during SBF, Maker Studios is, according to their website, “the only network that provides partners a full range of vertically integrated services including development, production, promotion, distribution, sales, marketing and merchandise services.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here. Sales and marketing costs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs. Of course plain vanilla stuff like stripped www prefixes don’t need a log entry. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While it’s a messy topic, I’m going to try to lay out some of the additional questions that developers should be asking a Startup Founder around the performance requirements of the application. Is SEO important?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive. If you look at the left side of the graphic you’ll see the easy, traditional measurement of followers, RTs, FAVs & replies.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. For instance, it does not make sense to develop an Affiliate Market presence until you have established an effective SEM campaign. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. It requires too many skills in SEO, audience measurement, platform integrations, CRM, retargeting, a/b testing of titles/thumbnails and development of one’s own platform for CMS and mobile distribution. That’s your job. You create and aggregate videos.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

The loyalties that develop during that time are strong and hard to break. 7 Ways Nokia Can Win Again - ArcticStartup , June 18, 2010 In the eyes of the developers and the startup community, Nokia went from hero to zero in less than 3 years. SEO in #20tweets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 13, 2010 Recently I spoke at Dreamit Ventures on SEO.

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