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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. And given that Facebook and Twitter currently pay you zero for content marketing and Google SEM charges you for customer acquisition – what exactly are you b g about?

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Forceā€¦ From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Many Websites Look Like Zombies to Google Search

Startup Professionals Musings

The solution is keeping your site alive and vital, and following basic search engine optimization (SEO) suggestions. Web sites that havenā€™t been updated in the last couple of years canā€™t possibly be alive. Contact related web sites that are well known, to request reciprocal links. Web page title tags.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEM is sometimes called ā€œbuying your way into search results.ā€ Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

A blog is basically a journal (ā€œweb logā€) that is published on the web. Search engine marketing (SEM). Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. You are now reading one of about 50 million out there already.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. Let me give you an example.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs youā€™ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom ā€œfree.ā€.

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