Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Real customers. Owned media.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? He was raised and educated in London. What are the risks and rewards? in Computer Science.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2012

Founded by advertising digital executive Mario Schulzke , IdeaMensch profiles doers to help and inspire dreamers to seed their ideas and make them grow into reality. IdeaMensch held it’s third gathering in Los Angeles last week to kick off a 48-state road trip (#IM48) across America of inspiring talks to help innovators bring ideas to life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. Higher education. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

Upon reflection, I realized that I leveraged many of the tactics routinely used by advertisers, politicians and other professional communicators to engage their audiences, including: Question Within A Question – Numerous ads lead off with a question, as do professional speakers, in an attempt to connect with their audience at the outset.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

In the spirit of Conventional Wisdom Isn’t , the founders of Campus Explorer did not, “flow with the go” when they founded their higher-education website. As with many emerging markets, the Facebook advertising ecosystem is relatively inefficient. Exploring The Campus. Campus Explorer earns most of its revenue through lead-generation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

There is still a place for paid advertising. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters. It is integrated features for smart phones and tablets. Do them all.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. For Meebo 1.3%

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

They advertised it within Hulu during commercials and throughout the product experience relevant to user behaviors. During an interview, he discusses that Hulu had its free version with 25 M uniques, which they needed to actively covert into premium subscribers. About Richie Hecker. Richie is also an entrepreneur, connector and Investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Kaleio users will also get filtered results from over 45 specific industries, including technology, construction, education, healthcare, blogging, and many more. Marketing & Advertising. Mashable, and several others. Some of our fastest growing industries include: Technology. Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals. Construction.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. I have some educated guesses. The money slide is the graphic below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other costs of sales. This tells you whether your marketing and advertising investments are paying for themselves. Over time, you cost of acquisition should go down as growth and your brand image go up.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web. Indirect competitors include specialized sites like Animation Mentor (specific to animation).

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. On my side, the time and money wasted with the idea to educate people is immense.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 The top 10 posts of 2009 Enterprise 2.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. Others have more time than money, and use services like SVnetwork to subject themselves to specific advertising to get access to the content they want. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). companies versus the Web 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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