Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. Be unique, find free marketing opportunities and use social media to build your following. That’s broadcast not new media. I will stand 100% behind my assertions in this post.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. Social media is a huge resource for entrepreneurs. Sadly, too many entrepreneurs still think social media is only for play, rather than work.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 29, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Proper Context – If the context of the intro is the least bit unclear, I ask the person requesting the introduction to write a paragraph or two that I can forward to the target contact.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Here''s how they pulled it off.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 21, 2010

I guess it was bound to happen, I now seem to be writing a series of posts around Matching. This is where I’ll keep my list of these posts, related articles and posts from other sources: Social Media Matching – Looks at how in many ways, everything is matching.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We appeared in a prominent article in the Financial Times. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Use social media to be sure people are aware of it. Just don’t believe what they write about you. They always need something new.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

The same article refers to several other people who are coming back to blogging: Liza at Maui Blog and the futurist Chris Saad. I’m enjoying the creative process of getting my own personal thoughts down in writing. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. started blogging again outlined here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. Or as the article on Y Combinator suggests, “is your accent too heavy?”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. Or as the article on Y Combinator suggests, “is your accent too heavy?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

This article initially appeared on Inc. Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. Click here. This post is about the “P” or pain. It’s just human nature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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MAY 24, 2021

innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.” The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated Guess you missed Coinbase.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

This article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Although social media news sites can be effective market validation tools, they are not without their downsides. I recently spoke with Michael Bleigh, Co-Founder and CEO of Divshot.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Inc. Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Here''s how they pulled it off.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. Poor thing had to write this parable and broadcast it through social media, just to get her point across.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. In our regions? Fuggetaboutit – show me the money !

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites. These days, customers want two-way relationships, and people who follow your writing will feel this bond. Hone your writing style for all communication.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. The majority of our time is now spent online. What does that look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2010

Finally, you will develop tactics such as building quality links to your website through social media and professional article writing to boost your rankings in the search engines. One strategy may be to utilize search engine traffic to bring in customers. Have an exit strategy. His blog is [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. This trend of social pervasiveness will continue. They controlled distribution to the masses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

These applications have quickly become a part of our daily lives from booking airfare, to social media, to streaming content, etc. As I’m writing this article, Mother’s Day is just around the corner and what better example of AR in our lives than showing thanks to our mother’s with it.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I am constantly reading articles, stories and books about and written by fascinating people. Many times I think that it would be awesome to have a conversation with them, but typically write off the idea because the process for access is too difficult. This challenge grew into the idea that became Huddlewoo. They are all right!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Rich Lesperance, head of digital marketing and merging media, Walgreens, says the program is the largest deployment of in-store mobile coupon scanning of which he is aware.”. Looking Ahead to the “Social-Local-Mobile” Strategy. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content below goes to goes to them as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. I’d seen all the hilarious videos and articles, but when I arrived, I was a bit surprised. The Future of Genius.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In this article the focus will be on how to successfully attract media attention. The best way to get a journalist’s attention is to know who you are writing to and what interests them. Speaking of time thievery = long winded boring press releases. The numerous amount of long template press releases I received was insane.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. Getting “Leads” does not mean money in the bank.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network. Dear Twitter, I have always loved you and I always will. The word of mouth. The public forum.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Robert’s article is worth reading. Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Deal with it gracefully.

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