Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

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 once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In general I find that raising large amounts of money when you haven’t figured it out ends up papering over problems more then helping solve fundamental issues in the business. Customer acquisition cost. This is how much you spend to get a new customer. It’s funny how scarcity of capital can focus one’s mind. That bit is easy.

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Custom 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Do something unique to get customer attention. This step requires thought because you need to identify what can set you apart from your competitors and how to retain customers. Promotions that appeal to the wrong customers won’t help you.

Marketing 102

Marketing Funding Social Media SEM 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

If I can help you avoid some of my first-time mistakes it would be a victory. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). It also helps to keep down issues with crowds getting too big, too early. I call this “marketing futures.&#

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Do something unique to get customer attention. This step requires thought because you need to identify what can set you apart from your competitors and how to retain customers. Promotions that appeal to the wrong customers won’t help you.

Marketing 106

Marketing Startup Social Media SEM 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there?

SEM 95

SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging Startup 95

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there?

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging 89

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Do something unique to get customer attention. This step requires thought because you need to identify what can set you apart from your competitors and how to retain customers. Promotions that appeal to the wrong customers won’t help you.

Marketing 94

Marketing Startup Social Media SEM 94

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Awesome, now you know it works, so you need a lot more customers to become an actual business. Thus, you need to enable new ways to create a scalable customer acquisition process. A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. He currently resides in NYC.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Customer Service – As newspaper boys were the face of their employers, savvy carriers learned to establish healthy customer relationships to facilitate timely collections and generous tips. Search Engine Management (SEM) – Search marketing can be performed by anyone with a rudimentary understanding of Google AdWords.

Web 2.0 222

Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. The automated part, is a customer fills out a form and buys the product through their shopping cart. The firm is launching itself today at TechCrunch50.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

DJ’s couldn’t help but want to play his records. It also helps to start with a target demographic so you can focus your efforts. You should start by getting out and talking directly with customers as Bieber did. He was so charming – and musically talented – the DJs and listeners loved him instantly.

Entrepreneur 398

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Blogging 398

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Services Search Engine Optimization Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup SEM 48