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

APRIL 25, 2014

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Postal Service ; the amount has been increasing each year. Social-media advertising. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Postal Service ; the amount has been increasing each year. Social-media advertising. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids'' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Gather leads online from your social media initiatives, mine your contacts, attend trade shows, and use lead-generation services. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Smart investors think a lot about what we call “unit economics” or what is the economics of service one customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. So he founded … wait … CitySearch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Tracking and performance reporting.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. With those mom-and-pop businesses, does your site still have to make a phone call to reserve things?

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