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

Both Sides of the Table

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. And people employed professional firms to pay money to websites to publish “news stories” that were written by the agency with links back to your site.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. How many through SEM? On measurement. Is it 4/1,000? Retention / Churn.

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

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Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Senior exec team is ex-QPass (mobile payments platform sold to Amdocs).

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7 Startup Marketing Strategies To Bring In Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

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7 Ways To Improve Return On Your Marketing Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

Marketing 114
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Lead Generation Is Still The Lifeblood For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

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