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Entrepreneurs Must Measure ROI On Social Media

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If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. ROI entrepreneur startup metrics social media business' Marty Zwilling.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Social Media Isn’t Free to Entrepreneurs or Anyone

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” You could just outspend. You Can’t Sign This Deal.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I attended events.

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7 Keys To Hard Hitting Social Media Use For Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free.