Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. See some recent examples in the 10 of the Top Social Media Campaigns of 2021. Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Some practical examples. Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. ” Be authentic.

Venture Capital 407

Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I am a VC.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

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. ” Here are some examples: 1. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. See some recent examples in the The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns of 2018. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. We also represent a few larger companies with international issues. What are you working on now?

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. Let me explain why this company had such an impact on my life. Ask yourself, ‘what does my company solve’? A great example of a website displaying amazing social proof with client results is Killian’s Workshop for how to book commercials. If these companies have email lists even better!

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Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

Southern California 150

Southern California TechEmpower Technology Council Metrics 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. It’s actually quite hard to lay out an annual company strategy that is articulate and underpinned by facts.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? I’m going to be using that as an example for a long time!

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” These give good customer connection and SEO. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. See some recent examples in the 10 top social media marketing success stories of recent times.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). The truth is – there isn’t a “right&# answer so for your company. For early-stage consumer companies I would be careful not to market futures at all.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video).

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. These give good customer connection and SEO.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

This integration, or convergence with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of the classic bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.” These give good customer connection and SEO. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. These give good customer connection and SEO.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public. How did the company start?

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We wanted the name to also reflect what the company is about – Profile – was an important word for us – as people create profiles on the site – then it was finding possible domain names that would work. We have many people on the team who have been with us from day one – at all levels in the company.

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Widgets, Widgets, Widgets.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Although such agencies are relatively rare, they do exist.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. This blog is to address these questions. See the books I recommend to friends.

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Startup IP Email Report 29