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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Social networks.

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Five Elements of a Credible Startup Marketing Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals? In 6 months?

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.