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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. What's interesting about that opinion is that there were people in the room who were more than happy to share their ideas around tools and techniques to use as part of the discussion. It felt like a bad time share presentation.

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

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But you also vastly expand the universe of those who will discover the topic and want to do a deep dive, learn more and then spread the idea to others. It’s why super smart people shouldn’t hate on the idea of simplifying if it provides a tool for the masses. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Underbelly.

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

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He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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

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He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. He was seeking $500k.

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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.). In the early days you don’t really want 3 extra teams hearing your ideas and gearing up to compete before you feel you’ve got a solid head start. Be careful about this advice.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level. SEO is seldom “free.”.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

It’s direct, authentic, non-packaged creative around a particular set of ideas. In particular, Brad was impressed that, “Trada…educated people on how SEM works…and they were incredibly inclusive. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company. Brad now considers thought leadership to be, “a flavor of (guerilla marketing).

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