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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media marketing. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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In an eCommerce or Internet Services business it is often the marketing costs (if purchased online) and in an enterprise software company it is often marketing plus enterprise sales reps. The first mistake that mostly only rookies make is to measure the CAC by looking at the attributable marketing costs of acquiring a user.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Streaming video. Crowdsourcing.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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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.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Market Size. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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