InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it’s very powerful.”. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

Marketing 233

Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

Startup 105

Startup Search Engine Optimization Summary Customer 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? You can imagine the press release, “New innovative model allows us to do audits differently than the competition!” Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? I am a VC. I hand out money.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

Search Engine Optimization 58

Search Engine Optimization Startup SEO Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

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.”. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. In 6 months?

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage. Having a strong presence online and strong, positive word of mouth in a relevant audience is a real competitive advantage.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

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. Competition.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. These give good customer connection and SEO. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push.

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. Tags: entrepreneurs startups. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We launched into bridal first, and gave us a good start in a niche, and let me prove the business model and myself as an entrepreneur. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. Also, as I was in the process of fundraising, the space became very competitive.

Startup 236

Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

The new war for platforms has mostly been waged by Andreessen Horowitz who have raised astounding amounts of capital and therefore had the fees to put into providing more services for entrepreneurs. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. None of the small businesses, these spas, have the expertise or the budget to actually understand lead generation, SEM or SEO, or even know how to manage retention, referrals, expertise, or how to customize or streamline their processes.

Template 124

Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

Tips 93

Tips Search Engine Optimization Summary Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Plan to update this roadmap at least once a month, based on results, new information, and competition.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive. Another part, in addition to good SEO and social media, and good traffic--is we've also be able to have huge brands since day one, since they trust me and what I'm doing. That helps, and continues to bolster the success of Gloss. READ MORE>>.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people Tags: studio talent casting hollywood entrepreneur startup gotcast shankman alec interview. People who are agents, like I used to be, and producers, casting directors, etc.--they're they're now finding talent all over the country. READ MORE>>.

Hollywood 252

Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. There are multiple benefits to both you and your customer.

Customer 96

Customer Custom Search Engine Optimization Summary 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Plan to update this roadmap at least once a month, based on results, new information, and competition. Search engines. like Google.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Most entrepreneurs I encounter seem to make their decisions more on perceived brand, past successes and ability to intro.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Anchor the blog in your domain name.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Anchor blog in your domain name. Marty Zwilling.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

You look at the US and you see passion, you go to Africa and man, Africa is amazing – so many entrepreneurs - the spirit to be successful is strong, there is no feeling sorry for themselves over recession or anything, people want to get on and make a business for themselves and that is the spirit behind ProfileTree. Why this region?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur. We're really in the memories business.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175