Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You get a lot of traffic — not always results. If you aren’t careful every PR team will measure inches over impact.

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Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

One of them is online music events site Loudvine (www.loudvine.com), which was co-founded by Vic Caretti , who gave us the scoop on what the site is all about. I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site.

Social Media 241

Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. Don’t drink it.

Startup 310

Startup Venture Capital Press Journal 310

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. make sure your site is optimized for search engine traffic: 1.) Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The Referring Traffic / Press. Search Engines. Refreshing Content.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ). Love the minis!

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

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. We call it storytelling media.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Among some tech press releases from this week include a few announcements from local LA-based venture, ImageCollect , a micro-stock celebrity photo library, high-res and all prelicensed. Born is most notable for his work in founding sister-site, Audio Micro , an online repository for royalty free music and sound effects.

Press 69

Press Entertainment Pricing Blogging 69

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

” Harvard Law professor Rebecca Tushnet — who is a member of the legal team at the Organization for Transformative Works, which runs major fan fiction site Archive of Our Own — said that these questions would depend on what the actual contract is between Realms of Ruin and the writers. “If

Writing 196

Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site. Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Guess what?

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Current advertising and public relations startups are already thinking along these lines in fields all the way from clothes shopping, art galleries, online advertising, to managing press releases. If you visit a movie blog, and read about a particular film, it immediately links to sites where you can buy or rent that film.

Web 92

Web Startup Artificial Inteligence Journal 92

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

Blogs are a huge part of marketing. Follow them on Twitter, read their blog posts, if they do guest posts read those as well. The key number is 10+ pieces of media, any combination. First, you must form relationships with bloggers. Start reaching out to just LISTEN to what they are saying now. Here’s an example; 11.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

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. Current stats: Their site has over 30 million users with mobile app that has pushed well past a million downloads since its January release.

Startup 93

Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Because we include links in our Tweets, Twitter has become one of the most powerful sources on the Internet for driving traffic to websites, blogs and news sites. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. Better than FB, Twitter or any news site. It takes a while to figure out the nav of Discover but once you do it’s a fun way to consume media. Navigation.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150