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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Content is king of the road. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The content comes from other places. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ). Poogling events/webinar, radio show expansion and social media relationships and events. I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Content is king of the road. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient.

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Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Zoho Social Startup tool: Social media management Price from: $10 per month Zoho Social is a one-stop-shop for email marketing, letting startups schedule posts, collect social feedback, collaborate, and analyze post performance all for as little as $10 per month. Most of these features are available for free.

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 131

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. Patrick is the man behind all the marketing aspects of what could be called one of the funniest sites on the web. How do you market the Funniest site on the internet? Content is King – Have great content.

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Sites Marketing Social Media Tips 61

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The first phase was just getting all the content online via YouTube. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. 34:30 – 37:00).

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media. Refreshing Content. make sure your site is optimized for search engine traffic: 1.) make sure your site is optimized for search engine traffic: 1.) Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The site is the brainchild of Tracy DiNunzio , who took her experience running RecycledBride.com and is now applying the same concept to women's clothing. RecycledBride really has become a popular site. I spent probably the first six months of RecycledBride in creating lots of content. Tracy DiNunzio: Honestly, hard work.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media. Refreshing Content. Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site. Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. Florists receive their orders through these other sites, but the problem is, there''s no profit.

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Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? I'll be interested to see what it turns into. How did you do that?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Normally, SEO is not cheap, and video is a very affordable way to boost your businesses search engine optimization, and help you to get discovered. In between practicing, I actually started and ran my own social network, TripUp, which was later acquired by Sidestep, which is now Kayak. Finally, what's the next big goal for the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. The marketer in you says sell sell sell and the passionate blogger says I just wanna create content my followers will love.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. More recently, a conflict with Google over SEO practices saw heavy penalties on their search results, but ultimately led to a resolution between the two parties.

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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. And be generous. We’ve found some good ones!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The main things I like to look at are new versus return visitors, top content pages, what pages are causing bounces, etc. For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Content creation? System performance and uptime. Aggregate metrics. Engagement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

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. Add content regularly. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Leverage blog content.

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