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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. For example, exhibiting at trade shows is very expensive, and usually not very productive.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

Let me give you an example. Let’s say you have a marketing department with an incredibly talented leader who knows SEO, SEM, social media and how to hit the ball off the cover on press coverage. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.&#.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. For example, exhibiting at trade shows is very expensive, and usually not very productive.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

socalTECH

None of the small businesses, these spas, have the expertise or the budget to actually understand lead generation, SEM or SEO, or even know how to manage retention, referrals, expertise, or how to customize or streamline their processes. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media marketing. Today there are huge communities online, like Facebook and Twitter, which grew in popularity for socializing with friends. Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. You are now reading one of about 50 million out there already.

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5 Reasons Growth Hacking is THE Most Important Function of a Startup

Tech Zulu Event

A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. He and his team didn’t stop there… they dug into SEM and affiliates among other practices in their toolkits. Thus, you need to enable new ways to create a scalable customer acquisition process. He currently resides in NYC.

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Five Elements of a Credible Startup Marketing Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. For example, exhibiting at trade shows is very expensive, and usually not very productive.