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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. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. ” Here are some examples: 1. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place.

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Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers

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Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product. I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. Let’s start with what I like most about the product. But I can always see the correlation between writing a blog or publishing on a social network and traffic.

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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.). My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. I think a great example right now is turntable.fm.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

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Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? We give it to our own kids.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? Final example.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. What should you blog about? That’s boring.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage. Let me be very direct. Market Structure.

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