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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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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.

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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.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? In 6 months?

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. 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. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Social networks.

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I Haven’t Seen A Startup Yet Thrive Without Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In a business plan these are only one of the many marketing campaigns which continue to rise in cost.

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