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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. I'm hoping to figure out a way to spark a meet-up around SEO / SEM in Santa Monica / West Los Angeles / South Bay.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

There is a corollary to that advice, which is “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.&# Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. You have a marketing department with three people.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

Both Sides of the Table

What you really want to know is which campaigns drove “bottom of funnel activities” such as: Purchases, newsletter signups, subscribers, comments and so forth in the same way you’d be tracking this on Google Analytics for your SEO / SEM campaigns, direct referrals, etc.

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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. Having a high position can make a huge difference to “organic” downloads. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

For credibility with investors, stick to the organic SEO model and other revenue streams until you have the high traffic to survive on PPC revenue. Until your traffic is in the millions of page-views per month, don’t expect to live off the conversions or other people’s ads. Marty Zwilling.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. How many through affiliate deals? SEO is seldom “free.”.

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

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. OTHER DEALS.