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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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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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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? 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.”. So if you convert 12.5%

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. Let me be very direct. Market Structure.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise.

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