Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). I actually like finding entrepreneurs who are more circumspect, less braggadocios and generally more planned about their actions. That’s fine if entrepreneurs are your target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

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. According to a recent article in Entrepreneur , 94% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use social media as a marketing tool, and 81% use it to drive growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Will I have information that other journalists don’t have (otherwise known as a “scoop”)? The idea is that you put out information with data and a point-of-view and that becomes the story rather than you. That chart has information on it. Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? I am a VC.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould: We sell on Amazon, and interestingly, one of the things we found out was that there is a lack of information out there about that. If you want read about SEO, there are probably 30 million pages on the web about that. A lot of that information is obtuse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

With the estimated 510 million live websites at last year-end, and 280,000 new ones being added every day, the biggest challenge for an entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. These give good customer connection and SEO. The importance of effective marketing has never been higher, for every startup, in this age of information overload and customer relationships. Marty Zwilling.

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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. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Wordpress entrepreneur startup website blogging business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. entrepreneur startup website business' Offer support assistance and guarantee. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Our goal is to create really socially engaging content, that is aimed at empowering, informing, and giving voice to a young audience. Back then, it was a much different game, and there was not much of an emphasis on social and more on SEO. Tell us about Render Media? Vic Belonogoff: We are a digital publishing company.

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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. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. Search engines like Google are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet. If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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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. These give good customer connection and SEO. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Integrate your social media content with some traditional media.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We don't put the onus on sellers to describe those items in detail--instead, we use the information we can get from the image and fill it all in for them, which makes it quicker and easier. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. These give good customer connection and SEO. The importance of effective marketing has never been higher, for every startup, in this age of information overload and customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet. If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Content is king of the road. Search engines.

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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. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. From abandoned cart recovery to SEO optimization, Shopify offers every feature you'd expect from a premium website builder. Shopify is an ecommerce website builder that helps startups build and manage a website that sells.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

SEO marketing vs. social marketing. So common are founder tensions that my intervening is a weekly occurrence and it’s so common that if I ever write about it I’m sure that instantly every company I’ve invested in and every company in which I’ve been an informal advisor thinks I must be writing about them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With the an estimated 150K new websites and 7M new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur. Tags: interview billy fried startup entrepreneur travel kijubi techcrunch50 activity booking. We're really in the memories business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Offer support assistance and guarantee. Publish the terms of your support, return, and replacement policies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 50

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Tags: entrepreneur business blog startup website. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

“The one-day event will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs and professionals to celebrate this diverse L.A. Especially when video is the 2nd highest SEO traffic builder and YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world. Regardless of what you’re marketing, you should consider incorporating video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty. Information specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. specialist entrepreneur startup freelance business' Marty Zwilling.

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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

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 event I did last fall.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Refreshing Content – I go back daily to sites like TechCrunch , GigaOm , Drudge Report , Huffington Post , WSJ , Neatorama ,because they have topical , informative , biting , controversial content that is always refreshed. Referring Traffic / Press.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who run startups have to be generalists to survive. Yet I’m seeing another critical group of entrepreneurs, self-employed specialists, who are a growing part of this new “ entrepreneurial revolution ” that I discussed a couple of weeks ago. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Refreshing Content – I go back daily to sites like TechCrunch , GigaOm , Drudge Report , Huffington Post , WSJ , Neatorama , because they have topical , informative , biting , controversial content that is always refreshed. Distribution Deals.

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