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. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Working with brand partners and viewers, they find that we're providing the content they need in terms of readers and brand partners, such as getting to moms interested in the green movement, moms specifically interested in beauty products, etc--where they can create a more intimate relationship with readers. Also, we have lots of content.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

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. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Content is king of the road. The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. Digital content includes text, graphics, sound, and video, with presentation style, currency, and appeal. Do them all.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn). These give good customer connection and SEO.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

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

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

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

DECEMBER 23, 2017

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn). These give good customer connection and SEO.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. That certainly works well for some. As many of us are ex operators I think it intellectually suited us. Partner Leverage.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Your remote control has two buttons. And be generous.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

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.

Blogging 135

Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

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.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

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.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

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.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

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.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91