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

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

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Understandably, the pricing has to be excessive to provide sufficient margin for the product’s producer and an adequate incentive for the non-profit organization. Yet when a child attempts to sell such mis-priced items, the experience is often discouraging, due to the poor cost / value equation associated with such fundraising products.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead. Once you churn a user due to stability or performance problems it can be hard to get them back. 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.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. You were taught diligently to look at LTV / CAC ratios and somebody told you a magic number (maybe 2 or 3, preferably 4 or 5) that they asserted was the magic number to know whether you had a healthy business.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. You must apply dedicated resources to your SEM efforts, either in-house or via a trusted third-party partner, in order to maximize customers acquired from this channel. It does not happen.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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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. Today awe.sm The other major pilot customer was.

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