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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. The key takeaway?

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Is Your Use Of Social Media For Marketing Working?

Startup Professionals Musings

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a recent book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going?

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies. Big ups to the Twitch.TV

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person. I see too many people who do that. Just don’t spam people.

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Don’t Let Faux Unicorns Screw Up Your Financing

InfoChachkie

It is no secret that the number of private companies with valuations in excess of one billion dollars has skyrocketed since the start of 2014. As show in CBInsight’s chart, the number of such “unicorns” created during the first half of 2014 was roughly equivalent to the number created during the prior three years.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Marty Zwilling.

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