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7 Reasons to Start a Blog Before Shipping a Product

Startup Professionals Musings

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

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A Blog Can Be A Startup’s Most Valuable Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. Feedback from your blog will tell you quickly whether anyone agrees with your assessment, and whether you have a customer base waiting. Find potential partners.

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How To Build Startup Credibility Before Your Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

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The Value Achieved Business Networking at Conferences

Tech Zulu Event

I have to admit when I first walked through the doors of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend Blog World I asked myself why I was wasting my time. That’s when it occurred to me how foolish I was to be diluting the value of any conference and especially this experience at Blog World. Yet “another networking event”.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

Sometimes I make a blog entry. We are also building an audience from our Poogling Internet Safety Seminars, soon to be an online Webinar/video for broader reach. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats.

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6 Ways To Learn The Realities For Starting A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline. These include the classes in school that focus on case studies and team exercises, but extend beyond the academic world to professional and industry seminars.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

While traditional methods (PR, advertising, events, seminars) and online methods (SEO, SEM, social, referral marketing) are well understood by most companies there are many methods that are less well publicized. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak?

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