Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

If you are in the almost 30 percent of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Keep up with the competition. Last year, Facebook’s revenue from advertising was over $55 billion, which was a 50% year-over-year increase. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. We don’t hear about the remaining several million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. Your book need not be a best-seller, and it probably won’t make you any money directly, but it’s the best business card you could ever imagine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Scott, published a classic book that I recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. One of these experts, David T. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Simply write a great book?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Revenue and competitive position followed. Focus on a few key principles is the key to success, and it takes discipline and determination to make this happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Now these principles are complicated by the worldwide instant access to many competitive alternatives, indirect social and environment impacts, and the velocity of change enabled by the pervasive market move to digital. These principles include the following: Free and ultra-low cost may no longer be competitive.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? What our technology does, is it offers up an exit ad unit, so if a user hasn''t booked on a publisher they have look at, that ad unit will show relevant ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Usually these are described as revenue growth drivers, as outlined in a new book, “ The Revenue Accelerator: The 21 Boosters to Launch Your Startup ,” by Dr. Allan Colman. The smart ones were already working on new features, and able to counter competition quickly. Solicit complementary partnerships and alliances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. We don’t hear about the remaining several million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

The specifics of these shortcomings are hard to nail down, but I was impressed with the good summary provided in a new book, “ Make It, Don’t Fake It ,” by Sabrina Horn. Yet every change can cause brand dilution or competition you don’t need. Customers, more than advertising, make your brand image in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2019

Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!: Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition.

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Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 84

Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

She was a member of the founding team at LinkExchange, pioneering the online banner advertising network. She’s a startup advisor, mentor, investor and was a finalist in Fortune’s 2014 Brainstorm Tech Startup Idol competition. She’s been on the founding team of 9 startups, six with successful exits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

If you are in the 30 percent of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Keep up with the competition. Last year, Facebook’s revenue from advertising was over $55 billion, which was a 50% year-over-year increase. Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Platform Media Customer 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Indeed, there are many self-assessment tools available online, but I was more impressed with insights provided in a classic book “ What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work ,” by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Orchard for e-Books”. LibreDigital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Based on my own experience in both large and small companies, I agree it can be done, with the essential principles outlined in a new book, “ Winning Now, Winning Later ,” by David M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2017

Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!: Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition.

Customer 69

Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 69

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. We''re connecting those two parties.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Gregg Lederman, in his recent book, “ ENGAGED!: Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition.

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Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 106

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. These innovative products ranged from digital comic books to sports data analysis. The event itself was amazing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2013

This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. Many entrepreneurs profiled in the book succeeded in large part because they veered away from established formulas and ways of thinking. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. We''re connecting those two parties.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. Many entrepreneurs profiled in the book succeeded in large part because they veered away from established formulas and ways of thinking.

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Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media Competition 101

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. 8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

For example, I recently picked up my phone to call a well-advertised local company for a TV repair. If you are in that category, you should take a hard look at a new book, “ Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--and How to Fix It ” by John R Brandt, who has some real insight on this problem.

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Customer Custom Demand Examples 83

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Never “sell” or push out your message like conventional advertising.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

Indeed, there are many self-assessment tools available online, but I was more impressed with insights provided in a classic book “ What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work ,” by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. Entrepreneurs at this level will seek the minimum cost and quality to be more competitive.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

If you are thinking of joining the rush in this direction, I found some practical insights for success in a new book, “ Thriving in the Gig Economy ,” by Marion McGovern. Know your competitive value. These include office space and supplies, travel, training, bookkeeping, advertising, and many others.

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Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. I first saw this approach outlined well in the new book, “ Customer-Driven Disruption ,” by Suman Sarkar, former A.T. Kearney consultant and now leader of his own consulting practice.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Design 54

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Gregg Lederman, in his latest book, “ ENGAGED!: Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to outbehave and outperform your competition.

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Customer Custom Training Satisfaction 97

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

In his recent book, Innovating Analytics , Larry Freed, a customer experience and analytics expert, makes some convincing points on the drivers for business loyalty and success that every business owner should commit to memory. Traditional marketing efforts (advertising and promotions) are still important. Nobody said it would be easy.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott, published a classic book that I recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Social-media advertising. Display advertising. One of these experts, David T. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly.

Social Media 55

Social Media SEM Startup Advertising 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Keep up with the competition. Last year, Facebook’s revenue from advertising was over $5 billion, which was a 40% year-over-year increase for the last quarter. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Platform 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app.

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