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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

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Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. You must invest in technology. Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. I call this “marketing futures.&#

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. 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! His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations.