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Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It

InfoChachkie

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? This reality encourages some high-profile individuals to manipulate their social media standing by acquiring fake followers. If you buy in bulk, the price of 1,000 Twitter followers is about $1.75. So, I manage my social media presences and audience.

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7 Critical Success Factors For A Services Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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7 Winning Strategies For Smartphone App Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

billion by 2014. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps.

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Should Entrepreneurs Grow Revenue Or User Count?

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014.

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Investors Love A Credible Entrepreneur Market Sizing

Startup Professionals Musings

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group or opinion survey.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

Tech Zulu Event

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. To comment on the rocky state of Bitcoin affairs in the last 30 days, does Dan believe we’re past the worst of a media firestorm? Setting Up 2014.

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