Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

Entrepreneur 106

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Cultivate early customers. It’s never too early to start a dialog with customers, as long as you don’t mislead them about where you are in the cycle. Find potential partners.

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

We're building our distribution online, building a direct relationship with customers, and it's something both super fun to do and has a clear business model and product. It's definitely the classic bootstrap in that regard, we're definitely not living large. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Search engines like Google depend on website HTML tags, inbound and outbound links, and relevant content to do its ranking and matchmaking, and hopefully get your company found and near the top of customer search requests. The solution is basic search engine optimization (SEO). But the cost of doing nothing is even greater.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Cultivate early customers. It’s never too early to start a dialog with customers, as long as you don’t mislead them about where you are in the cycle. Find potential partners.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Yes, that's definitely one of the reasons. Sam Rogoway.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

I read everything online I could about customer acquisition, marketing, design, and coding, and every part of the business I could. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. Fundraising, definitely. It was a crash course. You're now quite the expert on marriages.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

“While some companies are definitely excited about the possibilities of these new domains, some feel they create needless and expensive vulnerabilities for their brands. Third, review your current website for SEO best-practices to solidify your online brand with the major search engines as well as customers.

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Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. I definitely check people out using LinkedIn. However, it definitely has served as a hub. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup SEM 48

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Full disclosure, I helped her launch her web series, but would mention her anyway because this is definitely a timely topic and shows there is an interest in adult female content which you can view here. And last, but definitely, not least, who can ignore the black comedian online powerhouse who is Glozell Green? Same with CreatorUp.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

And there are definitely other service providers who provide things like marketing services who are interesting, so its not all service providers, its more like the wealth management types. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. You know what I mean.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Understand the definition of an “At Will” employee. Pick a Customer Relationships Management System (CRM). Make a Customer Service Plan to standardize procedures for complaints and refunds. Improve SEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. Timing is always a critical element of a new business, and the quality of your product and customer service is your sustainable competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Startup SEO Social Media 52

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

So, as a blogger, you definitely want to make sure your site visitor is reminded about you, that you have direct access to them and that they have a core reason to come back. So getting back to my non-techie friends, when you set up your Posterous go ahead and create a “custom domain name”. How can we do this….

Blogging 83

Blogging Email Writing Sites 83

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. Use possible input ($errSrc, $errMsg, …) from the caller to customize the error page. empty($uriParts["fragment"])) { $canonicalUri.= "#".$uriParts["fragment"]; All errors are mine.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Why you have to design products for how your customers are , and not how you want them to be. SEO in #20tweets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 13, 2010 Recently I spoke at Dreamit Ventures on SEO. Your remote control has two buttons. They are unmarked, but one button points up and one button points down. Which button do you press?

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