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

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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. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book?

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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

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Only after you’ve done all this can you consider whether or not it makes sense to pay for any marketing such as SEM, PR, trade show expenditure, etc. The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. But when I write a blog post I always allocate a certain amount of time to having debates in the comments section.

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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.). Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. Nobody likes writing re-hashed stories. Read their articles.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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In particular, Brad was impressed that, “Trada…educated people on how SEM works…and they were incredibly inclusive. We write blogs, we do music videos, we show up, we engage with people…we love our product. Write Your Own Playbook. We have never done a press release.

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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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Popular keywords have higher costs.

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

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. 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! His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. Administrative specialists.