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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. Determine the proper measurement tools and set up the measurement process.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. We’re the underlying platform that enables the calls to be tracked like clicks while weeding out fraud.

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Full Speed Ahead! Social Media Week Is Here!

Tech Zulu Event

Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts. What is Social Media Week? What's it all for?

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? visualization tool for 2+ years so when they told me they were building a new sweet of tools designed for marketers I was all over it. And so forth.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.