Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Add content regularly.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 88

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Add content regularly.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

These are subjective elements, but there are specifics that even a computer program can evaluate to set your ranking, and thus determine whether your site is alive and a good match to a specific search request. The solution is keeping your site alive and vital, and following basic search engine optimization (SEO) suggestions.

Google 93

Google SEO Search Engine Optimization SEM 93

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results.

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Add content regularly.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Add content regularly.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach? Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier?

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Add content regularly.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Include links to other sites showing your positives. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Social media marketing. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Viral marketing. Streaming video.

SEM 95

SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging PPC 95

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Search engines like Google depend on website HTML tags, inbound and outbound links, and relevant content to do its ranking and matchmaking, and hopefully get your company found and near the top of customer search requests. Yet my random poll of a dozen company sites found 25% were missing even the most basic tag info.

SEO 48

SEO HTML Search Engine Optimization Web 48

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

We caught up with Sam Rogoway , the firm's CEO--and the former founder of TripUp, which is now part of Kayak--to hear about how the firm is hoping to revolutionize the local business video market with its services, which just launched last month. We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging 89

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Many now skip the separate static website. Add content regularly.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

Web Teams better come packed with people who have an arsenal of marketing and computing skills at their disposal. When it comes to marketing, they should have an understanding of search engine optimization (SEO). They are required to make applications and web sites that are interactive and invigorate users.

Web 40

Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

Companies are spending more time and money on their mobile sites than their full-fledged website. I thought it might be valuable (and fun) to share some of those “mobile surprises” with you: SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Even crazier, in the Android Market 65% of the top 200 apps are freemium!

Mobile 82

Mobile Search Engine Optimization SEO Startup 82

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150