Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

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, despite low SEO rank). If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page.

PPC 154

PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

Web 117

Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2011

As an entrepreneur, you should assume none of your customers is like you, yet I find that most entrepreneurs assume just the opposite. Customers don’t have your technical base, the passion, and interest in your solution. By habit, people market to customers like themselves, because they know what they like and need.

Marketing 99

Marketing Search Engine Optimization Startup Customer 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2012

As an entrepreneur, you should assume none of your customers is like you, yet I find that most entrepreneurs assume just the opposite. Customers don’t have your technical base, the passion, and interest in your solution. By habit, people market to customers like themselves, because they know what they like and need.

Marketing 98

Marketing Search Engine Optimization Customer Custom 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results.

Search Engine Optimization 101

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results.

Report 98

Report Search Engine Optimization Startup Google 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 88

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a SCREAMING post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results.

Web 93

Web Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network 93

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The idea behind the strategies quite simple; optimize one’s e-commerce website for search engines such that when a web surfer is using a search engine to buy a product that you offer, your website shows up. Collect Email Lists. Increase Your On-Site SEO. Clean and clear code. Incorporating a Site Map.

Commerce 58

Commerce Search Engine Optimization Sites Marketing 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results.

Search Engine Optimization 85

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

Some make big mistakes, such as Webvan expanding too fast with a huge infrastructure, and Pets.com , trying to grow the business with a negative margin, under the mistaken assumption that winning customers is more important than making a profit. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

Search Engine Optimization 57

Search Engine Optimization Startup Social Media Metrics 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. In reality, most people will never find negative content, unless a link appears on the first page of search engine results.

Search Engine Optimization 56

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 56

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

You’ll keep in touch with your customers quickly and easily. The customers will continue returning to your business due to the personal connections you make with them. But perhaps you should consider short, weekly emails to take the place of meetings. People will find your website when they search for important keywords.

SEO 40

SEO Search Engine Optimization Tips Software Review 40

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

API call could handle shortening the URL for you, I prefer to create one before I post and add it as a custom field. Scroll down to the bottom of your post to a section called “custom fields.&# you should follow me on Twitter here and you should subscribe to my posts via RSS here or email here. Though a Bit.ly

RSS 29

RSS HTML JavaScript Doc 29