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

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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. But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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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.). The truth is that we work in a very small, tight-knit industry and news & plans spread fast. The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing.

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. We''re aggressively hiring, which is great news for the local industry, in marketing, sales, and engineering. Scott Morrow: The original business plan was to be a B-to-B, data network to help travel agents book hotels offline, at these boutique, independent luxury hotels.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.

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Five Elements of a Credible Startup Marketing Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Pitch your story to newspaper journalists, radio, and television news reporters who cover your local area or industry. Despite the fact that social networking and other online processes are essentially free, good marketing still costs money.