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7 Ways Your Marketing Needs To Meet Today’s Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few really understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. Pull marketing is less expensive than push marketing.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no founders, marketers, investors?—?and no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture. Why Did I Invest in Trust?

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6 Keys To Sizing Your Market For A New Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market research data. Peruse company reports from your business domain. Conduct your own customized market research.

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OpenX Sets Marketing Head

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Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX announced this morning that it has named Matthew Reid as its new Vice President of Marketing. OpenX said that Reid will oversee branding, customer acquisition and product marketing. Reid reports to Jason Fairchild, OpenX's Chief Revenue Officer.

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WebVisible: Small Business Advertising Increases, But Slowly

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Irvine-based WebVisible , which provides local search marketing and ad placement for small businesses, reports that its latest quarterly advertising report shows that search advertising spending by small business is increasing, but is doing so more slowly that recent quarters. READ MORE>>.

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WebVisible: Bing Search Spend Increases, Small Business Advertising Up

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Irvine-based WebVisible has released its latest quarterly advertising report, saying this morning that Bing's share of the search spending market was up 10 percent in Q1 over the previous quarter, and that the average small business advertisers spent $2,201 in search advertising in Q1. READ MORE>>.

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Silicon Beach Report Aug. 26: Snapchat to Rollout Behavior Targeting for Advertisers

L.A. Business Journal

Snapchat to rollout behavior targeting for advertisers, Thrive Market making pitch to be affordable online Whole Foods, and SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashes down in ocean.

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