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7 Lessons On How Startups Use Social Media To Succeed

Startup Professionals Musings

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though many of these can be mitigated by testing and early customer feedback , you will find that it pays big dividends to do your homework before building and rolling out every new initiative: In today’s customer data overload, marketing is essential. Even more important than solution marketing is building your brand.

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7 Keys To Optimizing Your Investment In Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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Making A Sport Out of Shopping On Little Black Bag, With Dan Murillo

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We think there is a new category of the e-commerce and shopping sector, the entertainment sector. It gets quite strategic. We like to describe it as a fantasy sport for women, because it has some of the same dynamics, that the same kinds of conversations, strategy, and planning. What do you have planned next?

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7 Tips On Maximizing Social Media Returns At Low Cost

Startup Professionals Musings

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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Don’t Wait To Catch Up Until Your Customers Hate You

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Entrepreneurs Must Measure ROI On Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.