Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” For most, it sounds like a magical process or a scam, with the experts spewing so many acronyms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

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 called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

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 called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

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 called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The page Title tag is predominantly displayed in search engine results as the first line of the result and is normally the link to your web page. These are HTML tags needed per page, which contain one or two sentences, and keywords and phrases, that briefly explain to the search engine what the web page is about. Reduce page load time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

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 called marketing campaigns, which continue to rise in cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud). The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Affiliate Marketing – As described more fully in Pour and Stir , anyone with basic web development skills can become an affiliate publisher and generate income by creating websites that market a variety of products and services. The key to effective SEM is diligent and vigilant review of the keywords and their respective effectiveness. .

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