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

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While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. 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.

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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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The people who we our content and videos in are essentially connected, mobile, have their phone with them all the time. Back then, it was a much different game, and there was not much of an emphasis on social and more on SEO. Everyone carries their phone around, and 70 to 75 percent of the traffic on our site is all mobile.

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There’s No Such Thing as an MCN. It’s a Figment of Your Imagination

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And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. But ignoring SnapChat for video is a mistake. It requires too many skills in SEO, audience measurement, platform integrations, CRM, retargeting, a/b testing of titles/thumbnails and development of one’s own platform for CMS and mobile distribution.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. Traditional software vs. SaaS. FourSquare. Everywhere.