SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. SEO for Startups )? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Do you need to process user-contributed media? Tracking URLs?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Tracy realized her constituency and being a public figure helped elevate her.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. Customers expect consistency of your brand name across all channels, so don’t pick a web site name if the comparable name is available or already taken on relevant social media. It’s easier, cheaper, and quicker to pivot at this stage rather than later.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture.

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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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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Best Communication Tools for Startups Communication tools refer to any type of technology that helps businesses stay connected.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. Let me give you an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. How do people drive SEO growth?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The bottom line is that Los Angeles Tech is trying to help find and navigate that content. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Usually through some sort of referral, it helps assign priority.

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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. He gives up the goods and a few tips on what you could do to help market your company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit.

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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. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Engage your audience with social media.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. From comments, you will accumulate external links both into and out of your site, and get additional ranking from Google.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

. - talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. Disclosure: we helped build the system that is behind these.) Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. From comments, you will accumulate external links both into and out of your site, and get additional ranking from Google.

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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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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media. 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 Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So, I decided to take a leap of faith, and leave my comfy corporate job, and go around to flower shops and get a full understanding of how they operate, how they run their business, and help solve this problem. We partner with them, and give them tools to help their business. You mention the big companies, like FTD, 1-800 Flowers, etc.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

It's also a great way to build out your own YouTube channel, which we also help them do. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video. We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The team at Recycled Bride knows weddings are expensive, time-consuming to plan, and that’s the reason they want to make it easy to source great deals on pricey wedding items, and help you recover some of the money spent. Sellers list their items on the site, using a simple 60-second listing process. How does Recycle Bride work?

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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. And by the way, Twitter should finally end URI shortening.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. We help them with this. We came together to help others in the same situation – ie starting a business but not knowing how to market it. Why the name? Why this region?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Social media marketing. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, with popular sites like YouTube , so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. From comments, you will accumulate external links both into and out of your site, and get additional ranking from Google.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Having help narrowing choices is what its going to be about going forward. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

As cloud-based architecture continues to develop and evolve, very likely businesses will find additional uses for this helpful feature. For example, the popular search engine Google updated its search algorithm recently to place a higher value upon sites which load well on mobile devices. Enhanced Platform Mobility.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

Program and account managers are helpful especially if more than one project is open. Security experts and other individuals might be helpful in creating and fixing network performance monitoring software. Then, there are the creative peoples that help make the Web Team’s work stand out among others.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. How did it help you? FI and Adeo have already been helpful making introductions to several of the leading early-stage investors for casual gaming companies. I'll be interested to see what it turns into. For me, it's a matter of degree.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media. 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. Referring Traffic / Press.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. And influencers may help once or twice but ultimately nothing is free.

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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. An email list is exactly how it sounds, a collection of people’s emails who have visited your site. Not really. It’s normal.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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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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