Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

YouTube has broadened its restrictions on gun-related videos, while thousands of Americans are mobilizing to demand stricter gun controls Saturday in a mass march spurred by young survivors of a deadly armed attack on a Florida high school last month.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. Even tech blogs know this. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. Next comes sales volume by channel. Holiday sales fluctuations eat cash.

Startup 86

Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Set up group meetings, sales presentations, and special promotions using webinars, webcasts, and podcasts, rather than travel and personal meetings. Maximize cash flow. Raise the marketing bar.

Entrepreneur 93

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Southern California Edison Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Media and content creation businesses expanding their services to meet future content needs require a network that can support growing media content demands. The number of digital video viewers in the U.S. in 2018 was 228.8 million and is expected to increase to 244.3 million in 2021 1. Wavelength Services.

Content 63

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Set up group meetings, sales presentations, and special promotions using webinars, webcasts, and podcasts, rather than travel and personal meetings. Maximize cash flow. Raise the marketing bar.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Development Sales Social Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Real time on-demand collaboration. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. It’s too expensive to fly across country for marketing trade shows and big sales meetings.

Web 95

Web Entrepreneur Doc Examples 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Without the feedback, no change in the demand space will be noted. The result is higher repeat purchases and sales without promotion. Your startup needs to use blogs and social media to establish interactive relationships early. People still judge a book by its cover. Target all the senses all the time.

Startup 104

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Set up group meetings, sales presentations, and special promotions using webinars, webcasts, and podcasts, rather than travel and personal meetings. Maximize cash flow. Raise the marketing bar.

Tips 92

Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. The incumbents have expensive product features to maintain and often expensive sales channels. Think Compaq when Dell first went direct over the phone then Internet. About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2018

Without the feedback, no change in the demand space will be noted. The result is higher repeat purchases and sales without promotion. Your startup needs to use blogs and social media to establish interactive relationships early. People still judge a book by its cover. Target all the senses all the time.

Startup 53

Startup Customer Custom Social Media 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Real time on-demand collaboration. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. It’s too expensive to fly across country for marketing trade shows and big sales meetings.

Web 88

Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We built the website The Numbers, which tracks daily and weekly box office grosses and DVD sales, and we also provider consulting services--primarily to independent filmmakers, or anybody in the industry who needs to get financial data in order to support their business plan or to make investment decisions.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

It's something like between $50M and $100M in sales per year. It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Audience contributions, like product reviews, discussion board conversations, and comments on your blog are invaluable because they create more credible content and attract more money from advertisers. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Overall, in today’s economy, businesses demand marketers think beyond the everyday ad and try to think outside the box for ad campaigns. Sales and negotiation training have become common place in corporate training regimens to help marketers and strategists understand how to engage customers and make them come back.

Advertising 69

Advertising Training Customer Custom 69

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

We tend to be better at things like team building, negotiations, sales, and fundraising – which are arguably the most important skills entrepreneurs should posses. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. Recently — in the name of censoring pornography — China blocked access to Google and demanded that computers sold in China come supplied with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort, starting July 1. The world’s best brains are on sale.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability. How does it work?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely ! Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. If you spend $50K on a website selling party supplies but you soon realize it's the sales of catering supplies you offer that have taken off, you will want to have a site that promotes your newfound focus. Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed. If I get demand from people after this video to do a deeper dive on term sheets we will. Now that I do they’re willing to accommodate? Gee, if they treat me like this in good times I wonder how they’d treat me in bad times!&#.

Venture Capital 405

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand.

Help 303

Help Startup Competition Framework 303

Jason Nazar

APRIL 7, 2011

Are words like “Conversion, Sales, Revenue Optimization” dirty language at your parties? Sales and making money is the purest exchange of value, and without that no great tech invention would be a permanent fixture in our lives. If you’re services are actually in demand they will be sought out Casanova of Board Advising.

Technical Advisors 112

Technical Advisors Startup Social Media Ideas 112

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage. I am not a lawyer and I never played one on TV.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on startup advice but also filed under my sales & marketing posts. The only problem is that you can’t afford all of these expensive direct sales reps to go and sell it. Sort of amortizing the costs of their sales reps over more products. You decide to go out and hire a sales rep.

Startup 293

Startup Sales Marketing Product 293

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, Entrepreneurship, monetization. . Michael Coté, RedMonk. The constrai.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

We are posed as a nimble startup ready to shift with consumer demands. This eventually lead to being hired by Wainscott Media and North Jersey Media Group – as well as a very successful e-commerce website which still receives sales to this day. Check out one of my most recent blog posts: Fear of Failure. Henry Ford. Walt Disney.

Startup 63

Startup Guide Entrepreneur Ideas 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters. The company decided to make a pivot and run with the idea of a status-updating micro-blogging platform.

Tips 80

Tips Startup Satisfaction Ideas 80

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

They will interpret affable and friendly actions as a transparent sales ploy. However, due to demand from his readership, Baum was forced to write him back into the adventure series. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. In addition, many people are simply not valid Bro candidates.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 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! if they started a business that was driven by market demand (as opposed to new/cool technology).

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