Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? A clear objective shouldn’t take more than a sentence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2013

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. If your startup business is on a tight budget, there are creative ways today to get customers’ attention without traditional advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. You must invest in technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. Thank you, John. So, he built an auction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

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Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

What follows is a summary which paraphrases Arnie’s responses. If you follow the tech blogs, that’s a very vocal community, but it is a tiny community. 1) What is your primary goal in the next six months – bring on more Advertisers, top employees, celebrities, agency partners? – Value Prop Twitter Style : Ad.ly all of the above?

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Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. If your startup business is on a tight budget, there are creative ways today to get customers’ attention without traditional advertising.

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Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media Competition 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

I found a good summary of these attributes in a recent book, “ The Old School Advantage ,” by an expert on interpersonal communication, J. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers.

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Social Media Custom Customer Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. If your startup business is on a tight budget, there are creative ways today to get customers’ attention without traditional advertising.

Tips 89

Tips Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the latest book by business guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of some great strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet. There is still a place for paid advertising. Do them all.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. As we have invested millions in building out our sales organization efficiency really matters. As your company grows it changes in obvious and predictable ways.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. If you want to understand my thesis behind Maker you can read this article that outlines the trend , but in summary: People watch 5.3

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Short summary of my posts: 1. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic.

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Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video). While traditional methods (PR, advertising, events, seminars) and online methods (SEO, SEM, social, referral marketing) are well understood by most companies there are many methods that are less well publicized. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a new book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. Save your bucks and get notice without expensive advertising. If your startup business is on a tight budget, there are creative ways today to get customers’ attention without traditional advertising.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Advertising Social Media Competition 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Even tech blogs know this. You struggle to get advertisers to pay your CPM rates and get your page clicks up in a business where you become a near commodity to ever other website out there. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. Yet you can run a conference and mint money.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

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. I love to sell the knowledge to my clients but ranting in blogs is somehow useless.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

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. ► October (1) New Video!

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