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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. At minimum, that requires a modern website, and visibility on relevant social media sites, likely including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Excessive support and return activities. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house. Outsourcing is an expensive solution for poor planning.

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How OneStop Internet Is Powering Ecommerce For Brands

socalTECH

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Everyone is now pretty much selling direct on apparel sites now.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). David Cohen is a very active blogger and spokesperson, as is Brad Feld. What is Sendgrid? Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service.

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How Dare They Block My Facebook at Work?

Startup Professionals Musings

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) – technique used to spread networking worms. They also point to the fact that, for some roles and professions, like real-time monitoring of news and consumer issues, these sites can be leveraged as effective business tools, now about one in five companies actually requires their use for work-related purposes.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. MySpace should not require a login to get into the site, and I DON’T want to see my profile when I do log in. This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo.

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TechZulu Top 2013 SXSW Panel Picks & More

Tech Zulu Event

SXSWi has listed the following information on their site: If you or someone you know is doing amazing work with technology to help their community, nominate them for a chance to win a scholarship to attend SXSW Interactive. Community and Activism. Outsourcing Startup Operations. Beyond Video: Storytelling for the 21st Century.