Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Building content is costly and time-consuming. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

Startup 144

Startup Sites Content Sales 144

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Communication and writing skills are required. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Invest Tool 79

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product. We've got three core product centers; the online contests that drive traffic, the daily deals that drive revenue, and then we are also looking at a marketplace product for online communities that want to sell deals, but don't want them as daily deals.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. In addition to we’re taking GumGum and their very cool advertising opportunities to market. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. have to be excited.

Startup 225

Startup Los Angeles Twiistup Social Network 225

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’m not suggesting that you abandon traditional advertising and image building efforts, but definitely it’s time to supplement them to address the following changes that I recommend: Meeting next generation expectations is key to survival. Make customer trust the heart of your business model.

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Customer Custom Social Media Startup 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Communication and writing skills are required. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

What's your product, and what is it used for? Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. So where are you now with your product?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. He's been working Hollywood, too, and is a real Cinderella story.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

when they’re advertised to survive a proverbial triumvirate of biblical-proportioned physical abuse, the advertised brushed metal design starts to sound a little more substantial with functional purpose rather than just marketing bling. Product specs and pricing are as follows: High Speed Series – Specifications.

Class 65

Class Writing Startup Advertising 65

Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

Today, major media prognosticators including market research company Forrester and the Interactive Advertising Bureau foresee podcasting as the next billion-dollar media market , with a report from the latter saying that one-billion-dollar mark could be surpassed as soon as 2021. How to edit a podcast. iHeartRadio.

RSS 104

RSS Startup Media Template 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Communication and writing skills are required. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Advertising presence. Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA).

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list. Use strong communication and writing skills. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” John Wanamaker. It does not happen.

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. MSN & AOL.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Communication and writing skills are required. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Tool 95

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. Frankly, I enjoyed the community so much that I would have continued to come back more often but my blogging pace has been such that evening time commenting on an answer website was time away from writing pieces like this.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. So imagine what it’s like to be a supplier to Walmart. Sound interesting?

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Advertising presence. Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites SEO 96

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I know that there are competitors, so in typing up my understanding of their product I’m not trying to attack anybody else or claim that we’re the only one who does each thing.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Communication and writing skills are required. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Your Twitter YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Emily Nagle Green, in her book from a while back “ ANYWHERE ,” argues effectively that the future of the world and business is ubiquitous connectivity, the total interconnection of people, ideas, and products through a global digital network. Key vehicles already include wireless for communication, and RFID for product location.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Training 95

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. There are also others who are doing advertisements with short video. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight personal and product testimonials.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. Facebook, mobile advertising agencies, even Pinterest and Twitter (though they’re not directly related to automotive). ” THE CAR AS A PRIVATE SPACE.

Advertising 97

Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. That's the one we'll mass product. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. It's David vs. Goliath.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. ScreenSync TV is just one product offering in the amazing portfolio of products Coincident has created.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109