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

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Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video). SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Everything we were taught pre-Internet is still relevant. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads). But you don’t need to spend money on SEM.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Summary notes, as always, provide below. 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! To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. It was a pleasure to write them myself. Overture (Goto.com).

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today. We all know how much costs have come down on computer hardware, computer software, printers, PDAs, high-speed internet access, servers, and security measures. Sales and marketing costs.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today. We all know how much costs have come down on computer hardware, computer software, printers, PDAs, high-speed internet access, servers, and security measures. Sales and marketing costs.

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Viral Marketing Costs Real Money These Days

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This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. In summary, the objective of viral marketing is that hopefully it will “spread through the Internet like a cold in a kindergarten.” Seed viral activity. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before.

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Be Part of the Entrepreneurial Revolution

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. In summary, I see a historic shift taking place in the world today. We all know how much costs have come down on computer hardware, computer software, printers, PDAs, high-speed internet access, servers, and security measures. Sales and marketing costs.

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