Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

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. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. 5:00 – 5:55). 6:00 – 7:30).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. entrepreneur startup website business' Join relevant business associations.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gary Vaynerchuk , serial entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of VaynerMedia , and New York Times best-selling author, has never shied away from sharing success tips and motivating people to get out there, get stuff done, and find happiness in life and work. Techstars Startup Week is celebration of entrepreneurs in cities around the globe.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Pay Per Click advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a result, being an entrepreneur in now within the financial reach of almost everyone. Sales and marketing costs. Don’t be the last to get on board.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Many of the businesses and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their interest is not e-commerce. If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. Search engine marketing (SEM).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. There is still a place for paid advertising. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

I started looking to sell ModernMom and do something strategic a few years ago when I saw that there was a shift in the mom space, where advertisers and brand partners were moving from targeting mass numbers of people, towards niche sites. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Join relevant business associations.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

If a tutor were to go out and try to advertise like we do, they would go under, and they'd lose money right away. After you've done that, and see that it is working, as an entrepreneur, you really start to believe in your product. I did a cold outreach to Kevin, and funny enough, he told me something like SEO would never work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. Market Structure. Efficiency?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. There is still a place for paid advertising. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites, such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

“The one-day event will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs and professionals to celebrate this diverse L.A. What was also interesting to learn is that there really aren’t any channels devoted to adult females since it’s mostly young males 18-34, a prized demographic within advertising, who view online videos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a result, being an entrepreneur in now within the financial reach of almost everyone. Sales and marketing costs. Don’t be the last to get on board.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur. I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. Tags: interview billy fried startup entrepreneur travel kijubi techcrunch50 activity booking. We're really in the memories business. What's your background and how did you decide to start the site?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. specialist entrepreneur startup freelance business' Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Advertise on VentureBeat. SEO Software. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming media. blog comments powered by Disqus. most popular. most shared. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Speak to entrepreneurs and leaders in your industry and consider asking them to be your mentor. Improve SEO. Get paid online ads, such as Google AdWords and Facebook Advertising. Register with Dun & Bradstreet to build business credit and obtain a D-U-N-S Number to accurately gauge and share your creditworthiness.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Referring Traffic / Press.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who run startups have to be generalists to survive. Yet I’m seeing another critical group of entrepreneurs, self-employed specialists, who are a growing part of this new “ entrepreneurial revolution ” that I discussed a couple of weeks ago. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. However, I know from personal experience, many entrepreneurs neglect to take a comprehensive approach to building traffic. Search Engines.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. Ah, the joys of youthful naivete. But I did want to learn.

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