socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

According to Shopify, it has set up a location at the ROW DTLA in downtown Los Angeles, where it will provide in-person help, support, and training for merchants on its software platform. Shopify says it has more than 10,000 Shopify merchants in LA, which led to its choice of setting up the location here. READ MORE>>.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Startup 153

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

Your challenge is to excel in all elements of a customer interaction, from pre-sales to long-term advocacy and image. This new definition applies equally to brick-and-mortar stores, as well as online platforms. An oversight or deficiency on any platform can easily cancel all other positives, and be hard to overcome.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 4, 2011

There are a number of other children’s books that also serve as good platforms from which you can impart entrepreneurial values and lessons. Man or woman, the tactics deployed by Sam are applicable to any sales situation and can be put to use by any salesperson, irrespective of their gender. However, Sam remains undeterred. Sam-I-Am.”.

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Sales Entrepreneur Startup Product 219

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the case of Invoca, customers pay a monthly subscription price for the company''s inbound call marketing platform. For most companies, existing customers are the most economical and lucrative source of incremental sales. 1% - 3% of the additional sales). PS folks are typically "farmers" rather than "hunters."

SaaS 215

SaaS Pricing Sales Customer 215

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week in Startup Spotlight, we found an affordable cyber security service for small businesses, biometric startup with facial recognition tech for businesses, car care for smart cities, a platform that will reduce the grunt work at marketing agencies, and more. How do cloudy days affect sales? How do windy days affect sales?

Artificial Inteligence 92

Artificial Inteligence Startup Platform Training 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. To sell enterprise software, sales employees are trained to sell through channels. Then, enterprise sales managers assemble pricing rules to ensure their pricing integrity is protected and all channels have a level playing field.

Advertising 59

Advertising Sales Software Platform 59

TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Sales of headsets in the fourth quarter of 2018 topped 1 million for the first time and new, low cost all-in-one models may further move the needle on adoption. We are incredibly excited about how the AmazeVR platform will enable innovative, quality content to be generated at unprecedented scale and speed.”.

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Chief Technology Officer Content Hollywood Netflix 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms. I recommend some presence on two or three platforms. Any increase in brand recognition, as well as personal connections, is a multiplier to your existing marketing and sales efforts.

Marketing 119

Marketing Social Media Mentor Conference 119

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful. I'm a guy that gets things done as a sales person.

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our platform not only distributes your jobs, but helps with your brand online, and helps candidates move forward to see if they have a great fit with the company. What we found, if people wanted help finding a job right away, and didn't want to be trained in how to look for a job. You've got to have great sales enablement.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform. It turns out that Technicolor had already been separately developing a platform for digital media distribution. Talk about that platform strategy?

Entertainment 197

Entertainment Netflix Marketing Content 197

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in retaining and keeping customers? His name is Quinton Myers.

Customer 113

Customer Custom Services Conference 113

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

According to the firm, it has launched a channel platform which will allow channel providers to distribute its products, including collecting monthly service revenues and managing the end user relationship. VMIX said it will provide market and sales support, training, tech support, and reporting to those partners as part of the program.

SaaS 100

SaaS San Diego Training Web 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. Tags: folsom showuhow video instruction guide ecommerce product training.

Guide 113

Guide Training Platform Product 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. What does Appetize do? We're really an enterprise solution.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

If a fan know they can get their entire brand fix there, rather than having to jump across multiple profiles, multiple social media platform, and networks, that's very compelling. That started to hit home when I was diving into the business, and listening to the inside sales guys making calls to buyers. It was the same issue.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Frank Addante

MAY 9, 2012

Would you ever go to your sales team and say? Enterprise software is a completely different world when it comes to sales. Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. In enterprise software people are trained on selling through channels. It’s just like hiring a new sales rep.

Networking 79

Networking Advertising Sales Pricing 79

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co. I’ve also shared a few Tech Cocktail and Tech.Co

Media 175

Media News Organization Content 175

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. They’re up to date on the latest platform decisions whether it’s understanding Spring , Hibernate and Lucene. VP’s of Engineering are essential to making sure the trains run on time. I don’t believe that one exists.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. An obvious example would be in sales. By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. To be able to have a machine rbain, for lack of a better term, train itself for that means you don't require manual work.

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Starting with that vision, we acquired a company that had built the base platform, based in Guatemala. At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. Coming out here, I wanted to focus on what my specialty was, which is driving sales as a VP of Sales.

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). I was looking for a person to head up my UK sales team. Within the first 5 minutes of the meeting we had discussed that I was training for a marathon. Small story. I used to work in the UK.

Venture Capital 264

Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Our platform helps them do that.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. Our other co-founder, Pete, was at Microsoft in business development and sales. They book through Swoop, which leads to those operators. So, it's been a good time to catch them.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

We partnered with a big management platform, integrated in our back end, and scaled out our keywords exponentially. We also weren''t leveraging social platforms, so we expanded our presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. That''s not what our partners want.

Pricing 256

Pricing Sites Marketing SEM 256

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They were interested in the foot traffic that represented, and we provided the technology and training. We trained their store associates, and provide them with equipment, including an iPad and a Happy Returns app, which allows them to accept and process returns. They provide the physical space and the staff.

Training 100

Training Customer Custom Software Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2015

Retail lives by the point-of-sales (POS) systems. Bindo is a point-of-sales and integrated local marketplace for local retail stores. Other equipment are available for businesses to help complete sales faster with a mobile card reader or update inventory faster using a mobile scanning device.

Sales 40

Sales Pricing Training Tool 40

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Their executive training program was unparalleled, providing a sturdy foundation for young and highly motivated buyers. What factors led you to consider augmenting your retail channel with direct, online sales? Boutiques are the backbone of our company’s sales and we did not want to negatively impact their business.

Sites 100

Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. People from San Francisco, Detroit, and elsewhere have requested that we duplicate or take the platform and brand, and incorporate it into their city and towns or suburban neighborhood.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170