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How to Make a Real Social Media Customer Connection

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. Guide customers to the right social media channel.

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Five Steps To Social Media Success for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone is talking about how social media can help you jumpstart your business at no cost, and experts are springing up on all sides to help you do it at a high cost. Before you start, analyze existing media, demographics, and new social media alternatives for a fit to your rollout campaign requirements.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

Along the way, we found ourselves constantly surprised by unanticipated applications that suddenly appeared and gained huge adoption across the Internet; this was the case with email, the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer file sharing, user generated content, Napster, YouTube, Instagram, social networking, etc.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

Tech Zulu Event

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd. People are starting to notice us.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs. Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”. There is no competition. Mark Twain. Long back-story here.)

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

Both Sides of the Table

Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Social Media Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Make yourself available.

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