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SEO vs. PPC: Differences, pros, cons & an integrated approach

Search Engine Land

This article will provide an overview of the search landscape and the two key search engine marketing (SEM) tactics, plus five simple questions you can ask yourself to determine where your efforts should be spent. Awareness Visibility in search engines for your targeted keywords drives awareness of your business.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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How to Use Smoke Tests to Validate Your Product or Feature Ideas

ConversionXL

It’s certainly the way that Dan positions it above, but it can easily be applied to bigger companies looking to test new product ideas, feature ideas, service ideas, etc. Dan’s process proposes something very interesting: that there’s something wrong with the current minimum viable product (MVP) concept.

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How to create a link building strategy

Search Engine Land

Learn a method for applying helpful strategy and planning insights to your situation and turn it into actionable steps for your next link building campaign. Content consumers : Individuals or entities that consume the content, including other content creators and search engine bots. What is a strategy? Happy strategizing!

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7 Key Lessons I’ve Learned Working at CXL

ConversionXL

Big ideas, big campaigns, lots of upfront account planning. I’m stealing the concept, of course, from the Minimum Viable Product ethos: Image Source. You can ask this with: Marketing campaigns. Product design. But this works in marketing campaigns, too. Emerging channels. Management processes.