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

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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. Having a high position can make a huge difference to “organic” downloads. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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

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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! Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. Overture was sold to Yahoo!