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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. How do people drive SEO growth? Everything we were taught pre-Internet is still relevant.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. TWIVC Summary – Richard de Silva. Do you agree that Google SEO optimized results for high volume search terms are broken? (49:35-51:30). I’m now back & ready for action. Thank you.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Summary: Team Leadership skills, operating knowhow and industry knowledge are all tremendously important. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Think of web vs. mobile.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. What should you blog about?

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5 Keys Steps For Every Startup Roadmap To Revenue

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my summary of her roadmap which I believe can get you back on the right track with a “customer-centric” approach rather than a “company-centric” approach: Find out what customers want and how they want to buy it. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results.

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5 Steps to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my summary of her detailed roadmap to get you back on the right track with a “customer-centric” approach rather than a “company-centric” approach: Find out what customers want and how they want to buy it. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results.

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10 Keys To A Credible and Trusted Internet Web Domain

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. In summary, a startup with no website, or a website with no credibility will kill your business. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

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