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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Career Probing

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Offer to help a couple of customers free, just to get your act together and your presence known. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Get business cards made.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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Social Media Marketing

SoCal Tech Calendar

The German American Business Association (GABA) and Epic States, invite you to an exciting workshop and panel discussion focusing on the social media industry followed by a reception at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. For businesses, blogs and online video have become central to marketing to, and engaging with, customers and partners.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors and Advertisers!

socalTECH

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. With Vistage, you'll benefit from: Advisory Board Peer Group Meetings; Private 1-to-1 Mentoring Sessions; Expert Speaker Workshops; Content and Connectivity Online. your business on the map with national news coverage and blog buzz for only $999 a. Need office or Tech Space?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. Maybe you can blog about that?

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