Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. They will exit quickly.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2017

Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. Perhaps the greatest asset in social capital is that of benevolence.

Technical Review 55

Technical Review Technology Social Media Social Network 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. I think these tough economic times and social networks have re-awakened consumers to the fact that there is more to a business transaction than price. Educate your customers on your business.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Competition 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Publish the terms of your support, return, and replacement policies.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2013

Survey results show that 81% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. 77% of consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. Perhaps the greatest asset in social capital is that of benevolence.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Startup Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. They will exit quickly.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers. As an example, early businesses that were willing to publish their commitment to “customer satisfaction or your money back” became influencers.

Social Media 58

Social Media Customer Custom Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around.

Startup 101

Startup Tips Education Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. From my perspective, this has been a great year, for my business and my blog. I am truly thankful for all my readers, your comments and your feedback.

Pricing 80

Pricing Blogging Venture Capital Entrepreneur 80

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue. They will exit quickly.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Founder Jill Bigelow (who is not related to me) said the brace includes a removable heat or ice pack feature that provides increased mobility, mood, and birth satisfaction. It was the first time the San Diego angels group has enabled the audience to choose the winners of its signature event, the John G.

Tech Coast Angels 40

Tech Coast Angels Technical Review San Diego Software Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. We then captured this conversation again on camera. We then spoke about startups.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Keep the day job.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Satisfaction vs. Stress. Perhaps your intern might be given the freedom to design and implement an entire strategy for your company (social networking, for example). Has your startup taken the initiative to find a motivated intern yet? ######## Today’s guest blog is presented by the founder of YouTern , Mark Babbitt.

Competition 96

Competition Startup Technical Review IBM 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness…but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

Invest 88

Invest Angel Venture Capital Entrepreneur 88

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

And all of our tech toys, cheap travel, social networks and real-time communications will never replace true human relationships. These were amongst some of the most read blog posts I have written, which shows me that the stress, pressures and loneliness of being and entrepreneur resonates. They want to win. ” .

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Entrepreneur Startup Writing Social Network 370