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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. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. Simply write a great book?

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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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. Read their articles.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. Write Your Own Playbook. We have never done a press release.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. You must apply dedicated resources to your SEM efforts, either in-house or via a trusted third-party partner, in order to maximize customers acquired from this channel.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. And influencers may help once or twice but ultimately nothing is free. Market Size.

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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

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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. Only after you’ve done all this can you consider whether or not it makes sense to pay for any marketing such as SEM, PR, trade show expenditure, etc.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Writing specialists. Websites like Elance and Guru.com help you staff up with specialists, or find work if you are a specialist.